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The Salt Road
Arizona MadeWorld Premiere
A trucker's last delivery leads her to her father's secret family.
After her father's death, a long-haul trucker drives his last load across the salt flats to the town he never let her visit, and finds the second family he kept for thirty years. A quiet, devastating road movie about inheritance and forgiveness.
- Runtime (minutes)
- 112 min
- Year
- 2026
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Drama
- Rating
- R
- Premiere
- World Premiere
- Content Warning
- Strong language, brief drug use
- Sponsor
- Presented by Copper State Credit Union
- Programmer Note
- We watched The Salt Road on a Tuesday afternoon and nobody in the room spoke for a full minute afterward. Mara Elkins has made the kind of debut that announces a career. We could not imagine opening with anything else.
- Director
- Mara Elkins
- Screenwriter
- Mara Elkins
- Producer
- Elizabeth Chen
- Cast
- Della Ruiz, Wes Hartigan, June Okafor, Pete Lindgren
- Cinematographer
- Bennett Reed
- Editor
- Ravi Menon
- Composer
- Eliza Sharp