In Daughter of a Lost Bird, Brooke Swaney sensitively documents an Indigenous woman reconnecting with her birth mother and coming to terms with how colonial violence has shaped her life.

Charlène Favier discusses her debut feature film, Slalom, which depicts childhood sexual abuse in the world of high level sports, a world Favier knows from personal experience. Listen to our podcast on the film. Watch the film Slalom in virtual cinemas here. Charlène Favier’s first feature film, Slalom (which I reviewed last year), tackles childhood […]

Mylissa Fitzsimmons tells us how she made her beautiful, apocalyptic debut feature, Everything in the End, in Iceland with four crew members and only $30,000.

We celebrate Mother’s Day with queen of on-screen mothers, Chantal Akerman, and her films Jeanne Dielman and Les Rendez-vous d’Anna

Seventh Row’s editors pick the fifty most exciting emerging actors working today, from Paapa Essiedu to Josefine Frida.

The 2021 San Francisco International Film Festival went virtual and featured highlights such as the Dry, Skies of Lebanon, and In the Same Breath.