HOT WATER / ГАРЯЧЕ

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2026 / 97' / feature / United States

In this unconventional and comedic road odyssey, a Lebanese mother and her American son drive across the United States, revealing the fractures and bonds between them. Poetically shot against the country's wide-open vistas, Hot Water upends traditional ideas of home and belonging with cutting humor and remarkable beauty..

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DIRECTOR - РАМЗІ БАШУР

Biography

Ramzi Bashour is a Syrian-American filmmaker based in New York. He grew up in Beirut,

Lebanon and over the years has worked as a cook, baker, journalist, musician and film editor. He studied creative writing and music at Indiana University, and received his MFA from NYU Graduate Film. His short film, The Trees (2021), won the International Special Jury Prize at Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival and Main Jury Prize at Prague Shorts. Ramzi was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces in Independent Film and was a Sundance Fellow in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Hot Water is his debut feature film as writer-director.

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