The Bend Film Festival wraps on Sunday after presenting awards for the 23rd edition of the cinematic spectacle in central Oregon.
Ramzi Bashour’s debut feature Hot Water, starring Lubna Azabal (Coriolanus), Daniel Zolghadri (Funny Pages), and Dale Dickey (Widow’s Bay), won Best Narrative Feature. The filmmaker, born in Lebanon and based in New York City, crafts an offbeat road trip movie involving a mother and son “stopping at diners, motels, and hot springs” in the American West.
The jury, comprised of Whitaker Lader, Charlie Sextro, and Sebastián Hernández, wrote Hot Water “charmed our socks off. The film took us
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