Panah Panahi (Persian: پناه پناهی; born 1984) is an Iranian film director.
Panahi was born in Tehran, Iran, to Jafar Panahi, a film director associated with the Iranian New Wave movement, and Tahereh Saidi, a nurse.
[1][4][6] Panahi's directorial debut, Hit the Road, was filmed in 2019 and follows a family travelling to a border in north-western Iran in order to smuggle their eldest son out of the country.
Panahi stated his emotional inspiration for the film was the last day he spent with his sister Solnaz before she left Iran due to threats being made against her.
Panahi provided a false script to Iranian authorities in order to make the film within the country.