One of the surprise nominees for Best Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards this year was writer-director Ellie Foumbi’s haunting feature debut, Our Father, The Devil. It had its world premiere at the 2021 Venice Film Festival where it was […]

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(The 2022 Tribeca Film Festival runs June 9-26 both online and in-person. Check out Matt Delman’s movie review for The Year Between. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In the edgy family comedy The Year Between, Alex Heller’s character […]

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One breakout filmmaker and performer to look out for this year is Alex Heller. Her debut film The Year Between, which she writes, directs, and stars in, is a dramedy based on her own experiences of living with bipolar disorder. […]

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The documentary Body Parts is an insightful, hard-hitting exposé of the damage done by the male gaze, whether it be the way it treats women on screen or affects their self-image off screen. It premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film […]

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(The 2022 Tribeca Film Festival runs June 9-26 both online and in-person. Check out Sammy Levine’s movie review for A Wounded Fawn. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) A Wounded Fawn, the latest horror feature from writer-director […]

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Writer-director Ravi Kapoor’s comedy Four Samosas premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this year to an uproarious reception. Set over the course of a few days in Artesia, CA, it centers on a wannabe rapper (Venk Potula) who, after learning […]

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One of this year’s indie films to break out on the festival circuit is Max Walker-Silverman’s feature directorial debut, A Love Song. Having premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and screening at Berlinale and Tribeca, the drama has earned […]

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(The 2022 Tribeca Film Festival ran June 9-26 both online and in-person. Check out Jack Schenker’s movie review for We Might As Well Be Dead. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Critics have been quick to compare German […]

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(The 2022 Tribeca Film Festival ran June 9-26 both online and in-person. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review for Sansón and Me. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Reenactments and recreations (“recreas,” for short) have become fairly standard […]

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(The 2022 Tribeca Film Festival ran June 9-26 both online and in-person. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review for Blaze. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Note: Spoilers are very intentional due to content warnings. Content Warning: rape, […]

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