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Everything is coming up Kelly Reichardt this year! Be ahead of the crowd by showing your Reichardt fandom and be ready for her new film Showing Up.

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We help connect film lovers to under-the-radar foreign, under-the-radar, and female directed films. Some of these will only ever play film festivals; others will drop quietly on streaming. We share our favourite films and how to watch them by email.

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What is Seventh Row?

Seventh Row is a one-stop shop for discovering great new films, diving deep into why they make you feel the way they do, and how they’re made. We’re here to help you join the conversation.

Every review, interview, workshop, and podcast episode is designed with one thing in mind: to help film lovers think deeply about films and expand their horizons through film.

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Seventh Row has published books on some of the best contemporary filmmakers, including Kelly Reichardt, Céline Sciamma, Lynne Ramsay, Andrew Haigh, Mike Leigh, and Joachim Trier (coming in 2022).

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Our ebooks help you explore contemporary cinema through interviews with the filmmakers — not just the directors but everyone on the filmmaking team — and essays on the films.

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Subjective realities: The art of creative nonfiction film

Explore the line between fiction and nonfiction in documentary film through essays and interviews.

The book features in-depth interviews with Robert Greene (Procession), Joe Bini (Little Ethiopia), Jonas Poher Rasmussen (Flee), Eliane Raheb (Miguel’s War), Gillian Armstrong (Women He’s Undressed), and more

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Discover must-see films nobody else is talking about

On Seventh Row, you’ll find in-depth interviews with the most exciting new and establish auteurs, reviews of the best films at festivals and newly released, plus podcast episodes, and more.

Cannes: Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage finds the Empress in an existential crisis

Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival, reframes the story of Empress Elisabeth of Australia (Sissi) as one of a woman trying to live up to impossible beauty standards in a patriarchal world.
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Cannes: Falcon Lake explores the threshold between childhood and adolescence

Charlotte Lebon’s feature debut is a sensitive look at a pair of teenagers caught between childhood and adulthood, friendship and romance.
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Cannes: Erige Sehiri’s Under the Fig Trees is a thoughtful day Tunisian drama

Set over the course of one day, Erige Sehiri’s narrative feature debut Under the Fig Trees (Sous les figues) is a thoughtful ensemble film about the group of workers in a Tunisian fig orchard.
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Cannes Review: Céline Devaux’s Everybody Loves Jeanne is a delightful anti-rom-com

Céline Devaux’s feature debut, Everybody Loves Jeanne, is wild, hilarious, sweet, and chaotic: a delightful anti-rom-com. It screened in the Cannes sidebar Semaine de la Critique.
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Cannes Review: Chie Hayakawa’s Plan 75 is a devastatingly unsentimental triumph

Chie Hayakawa’s Plan 75 is a plea for empathy amidst broken systems that leave the most vulnerable and elderly Regard sidebar at Cannes 2022.
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Navalny film: Investigating your own murder on film is bizarre

Daniel Roher’s documentary Navalny is an entertaining and thrilling film about the Russian politician who challenged Putin and paid the price.
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A collage of stills of films from our alternate 2022 Oscars, with a picture of a golden Oscar statue in the centre.

If we picked the 2022 Oscars…

Oscar nominee Eskil Vogt on writing The Worst Person in the World

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Insightful conversations on the best contemporary films

Each episode features a panel of guests, including Seventh Row editors and contributors, academics, and film critics. We dive deep into what makes a film tick, why we love it, and curate only the films most worth discussing.

Women at Cannes Ep. 3: Céline Sciamma at Cannes

Women at Cannes Ep. 2: Kelly Reichardt at Cannes 2022

Women at Cannes Ep. 1: A podcast on the history of women directors at Cannes

Bonus 29: Where is COVID in the movies?

Ep. 128: Petite Maman and Céline Sciamma’s temporary utopias

Bonus 28: Portraits of female artists: Part 2

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We host some of the sharpest (and funniest) minds in film criticism:

Lena Wilson

Contributing Film Critic for The New York Times

Andrew Kendall

Film Critic and University Film Lecturer

Lindsay Pugh

Editor-in-Chief of Woman in Revolt

Fiona Underhill

Former Editor-in-Chief of Jumpcut Online

Dr. Emily Garside

Author and PhD in AIDS theatre in performance

Dr. Angelo Muredda

Film Professor and Film Critic for Film Freak Central

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The Seventh Circle: A symposium on horror films

Rent access to four talks on horror — and the discussions that follow — through the lens of gender, sexuality, and disability.

Speakers include Lena Wilson, Orla Smith, Dr. Angelo Muredda, and Joe Lipsett.

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The 2021 Creative Nonfiction Workshop

Rent access to recorded conversations between pairs of filmmakers discussing documentary filmmaking: from personal cinema to reclaiming history.

Speakers include directors Kirsten Johnson, Sophy Romvari, Robert Greene, and more.

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