Hammer to Nail

NEW YORK, NY (November 25, 2024) – Indie Film Site Network (IFSN) has announced Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor’s essential, urgent documentary No Other Land as the recipient of the 2024 IFSN Advocate Award. The award...

(Check our Chris Reed’s Flow movie review. The film is in theaters now via Janus Films. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis (Away) crafts a beautifully animated fable with his sophomore effort,...

Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) is back and doing what he does best: making people and places look enchantingly beautiful. Parthenope, titled after the myth of Greek sirens who lured men to their deaths at sea, stars Celeste...

Inspired by a true story, The Girl with the Needle draws from one of the most heinous murder cases in Danish history. Magnus von Horn (Sweat) directs Denmark’s Oscar entry from a script he co-wrote with Line Langebeck. The film follows a...

Inspired by a true story, The Girl with the Needle draws from one of the most heinous murder cases in Danish history. Magnus von Horn (Sweat) directs Denmark’s Oscar entry from a script he co-wrote with Line Langebeck. The film follows a...

DOC NYC, the world’s largest documentary film festival, runs November 13 through December 1 (in-person and online) for its 15th edition. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of The Bibi Files. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd...

After winning the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, before making stops at TIFF and NYFF, Pedro Almodóvar’s English feature debut The Room Next Door will finally hit U.S. theaters starting in December. Adapted from the novel “What...

(Check our Chris Reed’s A Real Pain movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Jesse Eisenberg follows up his 2022 directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World, with another carefully realized character study filled with...

“I am afraid for the future of Ukraine only if Russia gets what it wants and shows the effectiveness of its system“–  Svitlana Lishchynska on A Bit of A Stranger Ukrainian filmmaker Svitlana Lishchynska has been “a bit of a...

(The 2024 Middleburg Film Festival ran October 17-20. Check our Chris Reed’s No Other Land movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In the recent Edward Berger film Conclave, the character played by Ralph Fiennes delivers a speech in...