Married Iranian directors Mohammadreza Eyni and Sara Khaki just premiered Cutting Through Rocks—their feature debut—at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival (where I reviewed it). The documentary tells the story of Sara Shahverdi, who lives in a village in northwestern Iran, […]

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(The 2025 Sundance Film Festival ran January 23- February 2 in and around gorgeous Park City, UT. HtN has you covered for all the hottest titles like Chris Reed’s Cutting Through Rocks movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd […]

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NEW YORK, NY (November 12, 2025) – Indie Film Site Network (IFSN) has announced Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow as the recipient of the 2025 IFSN Advocate Award. The award was established in […]

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After a week of buzzy premieres and cinematic revelations, the Sundance Film Festival has unveiled the Jury and Audience award winners for its 2025 edition. Over the past week, the festival screened 94 feature-length and episodic works, and 57 short […]

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There’s so much uncertainty in the world and strangely, as it always somehow seems to, the Sundance Film Festival reflects that. On a surface level, there’s the fact that no one knows where the 2026 Sundance Film Festival will be […]

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