Chilean director Maite Alberdi (The Mole Agent) premiered her latest documentary, The Eternal Memory (which I just reviewed), at Sundance 2023, where it won the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary, and since then it has made its way […]

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(Viktor Kossakovsky’s Gunda is in theaters now via Neon. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Gunda has just given birth when first we meet, her swollen […]

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This past fall, I spoke remotely with Austrian/German directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter about their work on the beautifully elliptical documentary Space Dogs (which I also reviewed). The movie tells two stories in parallel, that of the Soviet space […]

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I spoke with Chilean directors and partners Iván Osnovikoff and Bettina Perut on Sunday, April 7, 2019, by phone as part of my remote coverage of the 2019 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, to discuss their marvelous new documentary Los […]

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A lyric ode to the friendship between two canine residents of the oldest skate park in Santiago, Chile, Los Reyes (“The Kings,” also the name of the park) offers sublime filmic joys of a rare kind.

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