Co-director and Haida artist Gwaai Edenshaw discusses his landmark film Edge of the Knife (Sgaawaay K'uuna), the first feature film made in the Haida language. …
Canadian Cinema
Promoting and spotlighting Canadian Cinema is one of the goals of The Seventh Row. Here you'll find reviews of Canadian films and interviews with Canadian directors.
TIFF should do more for Canadian cinema
The Canadian films at TIFF this year were especially great, but the festival should have done more to bring them to the attention of critics and audiences. …
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TIFF18’s brightest star was Canadian cinema
At TIFF, almost all of the best films I saw were Canadian — and that’s not grading on a curve. …
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Establishing Shots: Rebecca Addelman on her marriage drama, Paper Year
Addelman discusses fictionalising her first marriage into her feature debut, which took years of rewrites, great casting, and generous collaboration. …
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Review: First Stripes depicts masculinity in training
First Stripes reveals how training designed to equalize recruits ends up reproducing a conservative set of norms. …
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Review: Indian Horse and the limits of allyship in adaptation
Based on Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese’s novel set in the 1960s, Stephen Campanelli's Indian Horse uses the hook of Canada’s national sport — hockey — to …
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