NEW YORK, NY (November 25, 2024) – Indie Film Site Network (IFSN) has announced Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor’s essential, urgent documentary No Other Land as the recipient of the 2024 IFSN Advocate Award. The award […]

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How do you hang onto your values while everything around you is changing? Monica Sorelle’s touching and observant feature debut Mountains centers on a Haitian immigrant family living in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood trying to pursue their dreams, while gentrification […]

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The blue carpet rolled out on Saturday and many of the year’s best independent films were recognized at the 39th Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Barbara, California. A24’s Past Lives took home Best Feature just moments after its writer-director Celine […]

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(The 2023 Tribeca Film Festival ran June 7-18 and HtN had a ton of coverage like M.J. O’Toole’s Mountains movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “Beyond every mountain, there’s another mountain.” That Haitian proverb opens […]

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Already one week into their festival, Tribeca has announced the winners of this year’s edition. The top honors went to Chris Moukarbel’s Cypher for the Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature, Guto Parente’s A Strange Path for Best International […]

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