Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, after which it traveled to other festivals such as TIFF (where M.J. O’Toole reviewed it) and then Sundance 2024 (where I reviewed it). […]

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Celebrating its 40th year, the Sundance Film Festival attempts to regain its footing and retake its legacy in 2024 after a couple of Covid years and a sad sales market – especially for documentaries. However if you look back on […]

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(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival runs January 18-28. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of The Mother of All Lies. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) To paraphrase Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s famous opening sentence in Anna Karenina, […]

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The Sundance Institute has just announced the lineup for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, which is making its in-person return to Park City, Utah. The section for this year includes Competition titles (Narrative & Documentary), the Premiere section, and Midnight […]

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NEW YORK, NY (November 16, 2023) – Indie Film Site Network (IFSN) has announced D. Smith’s vibrant directorial debut Kokomo City as the recipient of the 2023 IFSN Advocate Award. The recipient of the award, established to highlight one indie film […]

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(The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) ran September 7-17 and HtN has tons of coverage! Check out M.J. O’Toole’s movie review of The Mother of All Lies. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “Why don’t you allow […]

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Only a few days after announcing the Galas and Special Presentations slate, the Toronto International Film Festival has announced the lineup for their Documentary section. TIFF Docs’ opening night film will be Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine’s Copa 71 which […]

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The 76th Cannes Film Festival came to a close today as the Ruben Östlund-headed jury awarded the Palme d’Or to Justine Triet’s courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall. The festival ran from May 16 to 27. The in-competition lineup featured […]

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