Hot Water
- USA
- 2025
- 97'
- Must See Must Be
After having been expelled from a school in Indiana, a teenage boy and his Lebanese mother travel to the American West. The film ‘Hot Water’ is a poetic début from film director Ramzi Bashour. It is a contemplative story about movement, migration, and looking for a place to call home. The vastness of the American landscape becomes both the background to and a metaphor of the emotional journey of the protagonists who must confront their own identity and the concept of belonging. The film combines the themes of cultural diaspora, education, and growing up, to build a tale of a journey that involves both going away and returning. The main protagonists are played by Lubna Azabal and Daniel Zolghadri, partnered by Dale Dickey.
- Directed by: Ramzi Bashour
- Screenplay: Ramzi Bashour
- Photography: Alfonso Herrera Salcedo
- Editing: Mollie Goldstein, ACE
- Music: Ramzi Bashour, James Elkington
- Costume Design: Stine Dahlman
- Sound Engineering: Javier Umpiérrez
- Cast: Lubna Azabal, Daniel Zolghadri, Dale Dickey, Gabe Fazio
- Producers: Jesse Hope, Max Walker-Silverman, Josh Peters
- Production: USA
A film director and screenwriter of Syrian and American origin, living in New York. He grew up in Beirut. He studied creative writing and music at Indiana University, and then graduated from MFA film studies at the NYU Tisch Graduate Film Program. The film ‘Hot Water’ is his full-length début as a film director and screenwriter.
