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Musician, comedian, and director Isabel Hagen appears before us with On a String, an independent production that she directed and starred in, whose atmosphere and spirit recall Greta Gerwig’s collaborations with Joe Swanberg, and offers us the opportunity to discover the ordinariness of everyday life and the comic energy hidden within that ordinariness. Isabel is

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Rich Ronat’s debut feature, The Clutterbucks, imagines a sharply divided America in 2075, decades after political tensions have escalated into a second depression and civil war. The nation has fractured into two fortified territories: the “scarlet” states, which have rejected technological progress and remain culturally frozen in the 1980s, and the “cobalt” states, which have...

15 Indie Filmmakers to Watch Independent cinema thrives on risk-takers, filmmakers who carve out space for intimate stories, cultural specificity, and bold experimentation. Across narrative, documentary, animation, and hybrid forms, these artists are redefining what indie film can be. The following 15 filmmakers represent some of the most exciting voices working today, each b...

The director you might remember from Old Henry (2021) and one of my favorites, Greedy People (2024), Potsy Ponciroli, has a film with a cinematography so sterile it reminds you of Apple TV ads, the magnificent charisma of Alan Ritchson, and the wonderful acting of Shailene Woodley, but with less than a page’s worth of

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The Turtle is a tender, late‑night portrait of a couple navigating the fragile space between closeness and emotional drift. In under ten minutes, the film captures how silence, longing, and unspoken tension can shape the rhythm of a relationship. Late one evening, Barbara reaches out for connection while Tony remains absorbed in his studies. What

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