Director Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s new feature follows a second assistant director trying to save a production that spins out of control when a copy of the Koran is burnt on set.

Brandon Kramer's Berlin-bowing film is a bracing account of an Israeli-American family whose lives were upended when two of them were taken hostage by Hamas on October 7th, 2023.

But its movie library drew from a much deeper well ... Andrew Bujalski (“Support the Girls”) has since evolved to more full-bodied indies without losing the messy, fumbling specificity ...