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History and Memory

Explore the blurry line between history and memory on screen.

Alex Heeney / December 24, 2021

Run Woman Run is a feel good movie about recovering from trauma

Zoe Leigh Hopkins's Run Woman Run is a thirty-something coming-of-ager about learning to love and care for yourself amidst a lot of trauma. The film is …

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Brett Pardy / September 16, 2021

TIFF Review: Alanis Obomsawin’s Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair

Alanis Obomsawin's new short film, Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair, is a powerful presentation preserved on film. Click here to find all of our TIFF 2021 …

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Alex Heeney / September 13, 2021

Holocaust drama The Survivor is a showcase for Ben Foster

Ben Foster gives a complex, layered performance in Barry Levinson's The Survivor, a film that serves as Holocaust Trauma 101. In 1999, Barry Levinson …

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Alex Heeney / September 12, 2021

Benediction thoughtfully depicts a community of gay men

Benediction may be Terence Davies's gayest film yet: a character study of a WWI poet who keeps trying to reinvent himself and find solace. Jack Lowden was on …

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Alex Heeney / July 8, 2021

Une jeune fille qui va bien (A Radiant Girl) finds a new angle on life under fascism

Sandrine Kiberlain's feature debut, Une jeune fille qui va bien (A Radiant Girl), is the story of an aspiring Parisian actress living under the Nazi …

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Seventh Row Editors / July 2, 2021

Essential Indigenous films from the territories known as Canada

Here is Seventh Row's guide to essential Indigenous films told by Indigenous people from coast to coast across the territories known as Canada. Over a …

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