Driver

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Driver

2024

1h 30m

Documentary

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After losing everything, Desiree Wood takes a second lease on life as a long-haul truck driver. Alongside an irreverent group of women truckers, she fights for a life on the road. Using an intimate and observational approach, DRIVER captures the experience of Desiree and her fellow drivers within a system that routinely promises and denies them the safety and autonomy that they desire. The film follows Desiree as she struggles to balance the demands of being a working driver with her ambitions as the head of a driver-led movement run from her truck, which is constantly at risk of being repossessed. In a rapidly disappearing American labor landscape, Desiree and her sisterhood of truckers rally against the crushing forces of an industry that is indifferent to their survival.

Leslie Combemale

AWFJ.org

Azimi and her film crew have a way of getting a level of intimacy and truth from Wood and her sisters in trucking that makes the screen time fly by.

Rated: 4.5/5

Aug 14, 2025

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Alan French

Sunshine State Cineplex

Framing the movie as a verité experience, Driver brings a clear purpose and vision to the changing field. No narration is needed to drive home Azimi’s points.

Rated: 8/10

Aug 14, 2025

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Brian Farvour

The Playlist

Seeing the women profiled in Nesa Azimi’s slice-of-trucker-life documentary “Driver” feels like a breath of fresh air, even if the themes scattered throughout come enveloped in a cloud of patriarchal exhaust.

Aug 14, 2025

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Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

While the women’s relationship with one another may be strong as houses, Azimi opens a window to the precarity of the industry.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 21, 2024

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Christopher Llewellyn Reed

Hammer to Nail

The beauty of Azimi’s approach is how it brings the viewer along in gentle harmony with her protagonists. We watch, listen, and form our own judgments.

Jun 15, 2024

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Ricardo Gallegos

La Estatuilla

An intimate immersion into the highs and lows of the trucking world [Full Review in Spanish]

Jun 8, 2024

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After losing everything, Desiree Wood takes a second lease on life as a long-haul truck driver. Alongside an irreverent group of women truckers, she fights for a life on the road. Using an intimate and observational approach, DRIVER captures the experience of Desiree and her fellow drivers within a system that routinely promises and denies them the safety and autonomy that they desire. The film follows Desiree as she struggles to balance the demands of being a working driver with her ambitions as the head of a driver-led movement run from her truck, which is constantly at risk of being repossessed. In a rapidly disappearing American labor landscape, Desiree and her sisterhood of truckers rally against the crushing forces of an industry that is indifferent to their survival.

Director: Nesa Azimi
Producer: Nesa Azimi, Nicolas Borel, Ines Hofmann Kanna
Screenwriter: Nesa Azimi, Nicolas Borel, Nesa Azimi, Nicolas Borel
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 30m