(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s Darlene Love: I ...

Union County is a drama about the opioid epidemic that does something rare: it focuses on recovery rather than despair. Writer-director Adam Meeks’s feature debut follows Cody Parsons (Will Poulter), ...

The Venice Film Festival is coming to the Lido for its 83rd edition, taking place September 2 – 12. Earlier this morning, they unveiled the lineup for its in- and out-of-competition titles. Hammer To ...

On Chile’s Robinson Crusoe Island, a remote Pacific speck 700 kilometers from the mainland with 61 times more endemic species per square kilometer than the Galápagos, filmmaker Cece King discovered ...

How does the process of grief help us understand a person better? Can we tell who a person was from the things they leave behind? These are some of the questions that director/co-writer Courtney ...

When her father dies and her mother suffers a breakdown, closeted lesbian teen Jaime (Anwen O’Driscoll) is sent to live with her aunt and uncle, both members of the town’s tight-knit, devoutly ...

Documentary director Irene Lusztig made one of my favorite films of 2018, Yours in Sisterhood, and she is now back with a new work that is quite different, but equally as worthy, entitled Richland, ...

Democracy is often filled with chaos, different sides demanding to be heard and those with power and money reluctant to listen. In Emergent City (which I reviewed out of the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival ...

Wife-and-husband duo Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan (Pahokee) just premiered their latest documentary, Naked Gardens, at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival (where I reviewed it). The film is a profile of ...

Hirokazu Kore-eda has spent his career making quiet, humane films about families, and he won the Palme d’Or for one of them, Shoplifters, in 2018. Sheep in the Box, his seventeenth feature, keeps its ...

Myrsini Aristidou is a Cypriot filmmaker born and raised in Limassol. She holds a BFA in Film and Art History from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Film Directing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and ...

Once Upon a Time in Harlem is the best film I saw at Sundance this year. It is also, in a sense, a miracle. In 1972, the legendary documentary filmmaker William Greaves—director of the avant-garde ...