(MUSIC BY RYUICHI SAKAMOTO [series] September 11-12 at the Japan Society HQ [333 East 47th St., one block from the United Nations) Admittedly, New York has much to offer. The Dream House (of the MELA Foundation), a one-of-a-kind destination, for instance.

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 Reed's Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation

(The 2026 Venice Film Festival runs September 2-12 on the island of the Lido di Venezia (Venice Lido) in Italy. HtN has coverage coming in like M.J. O’Toole’s Furies movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) If you’re

“Enjoy it those of you who are alive. The world is fantastic.” — (at the time) oldest person Maria Branyas Morera [via social media] A decade in the making—from July 2015 to July 2025—or a lifetime. Several lifetimes, admittedly! Individually and

In 1989, Julie Thayer traveled to the Swiss Alps looking for something few people would willingly seek: the destruction of her own ego. There, she joined U.G. Krishnamurti, the radical Indian anti-guru who rejected virtually every convention associated with spiritual

Mas Bouzidi's Concessions is a love letter to movie theaters wrapped in the melancholy of their disappearance. Shot entirely on 16mm at the Lafayette Theater in upstate New York, the film chronicles the final day at the closing Royal Alamo

Oscar-winning director Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida; Cold War) is back at the helm with a stunning new 20th-century-set drama shot in his signature black-and-white. Fatherland centers on life in post-World War II where Erika Mann (Sandra Hüller) accompanies her father, famed writer

Winner of the Best Director award at this year's Cannes Film Festival, directing duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi's (aka Los Javis) La Bola Negra is an epic like no other. Set in the directors' native Spain, it follows the

Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days) returned to Cannes this year with his newest intense drama, and left with his second Palme d'Or. Set in a Norwegian coastal town, Fjord stars Sebastian Stan and Renate