The Cannes Film Festival has announced the 2025 Directors’ Fortnight lineup. Created in 1969, this section has been dedicated to showcasing the most singular forms of contemporary cinema. Opening the section this year is the coming-of-age drama Enzo from BPM director […]

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French writer-director Julien Colonna has made an edge-of-your-seat coming-of-age tale with his feature debut, The Kingdom. The mob thriller had its world premiere at last year’s Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section. It stars Ghjuvanna Benedetti as a teenage […]

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Ryan J. Sloan’s directorial debut Gazer is a gritty fever dream filmed in 16mm. The psychological neo-noir, which premiered at Cannes Directors Fortnight, stars Ariella Mastroianni – who co-wrote and produced the film with Sloan – as a single mother […]

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Premiering in the Un Certain Regard section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival to wide acclaim, writer-director Sandhya Suri makes her feature debut with a new kind of police procedural. Santosh follows the titular protagonist (played by Shahana Goswami), a […]

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Indie icon Crystal Moselle (Stake Kitchen; The Wolfpack) is once again blurring the line between fiction and documentary. She teams up with actor/rapper Derrick B. Harden to co-direct The Black Sea, a new cinema verité-like feature about a life turned […]

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The always epic (and, slightly esoteric in terms of attending goes…) Telluride Film Festival kicks off this Labor Day Weekend, running from August 30 through September 2. Sadly, HtN won’t be there this year but the lineup is, as always, incredibly […]

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After making one of the most innovative animated films with the Oscar-nominated I Lost My Body, Jérémy Clapin returns with his live-action debut that is just as imaginative, but with more chills. Meanwhile On Earth stars newcomer Megan Northam as […]

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Summer is approaching. We at Hammer To Nail have dug deep beyond the buzzworthy studio titles to present an in-depth look at what should be on your radar this season. From festival hits, to microbudget marvels, to horror that gets […]

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Beloved by critics and festival goers all over, writer-director India Donaldson’s feature debut Good One is, without a doubt, one of the most anticipated movies of the summer. The only film to screen at both Sundance and Cannes this year, […]

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The New Directors/New Films festival has just announced the lineup of new breakout films for its 53rd edition. The annual festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, will take place from April 3 to April 14 […]

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