Jasmine Batchelor gives one of the best performances of the year in Jeremy Hersh's The Surrogate, a smart and sensitive drama about a pregnancy surrogate who …
Social Justice
Explore stories about marginalized groups and the pursuit of a more fair society.
Explant Review: An exposé on the breast implant industry
Jeremy Simmons’s documentary film, Explant, produced by World of Wonder, exposes the horrors of the breast implant industry alongside RuPaul's Drag Race judge …
[Read more...] about Explant Review: An exposé on the breast implant industry
HotDocs 2021 highlights, from Indigenous stories to animated histories
Seventh Row's editors pick the must see films of HotDocs 2021, from Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning Of Empathy to Archipelago. Read all our HotDocs 2021 …
[Read more...] about HotDocs 2021 highlights, from Indigenous stories to animated histories
Daughter of a Lost Bird Review: An Indigenous woman reconnects with her birth mother
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 …
Sundance Review: San Francisco students stress over college applications in Try Harder!
Debbie Lum's documentary Try Harder! follows students at Lowell, a high-achieving SF high school with a predominantly Asian student body. Check out all our …
Education Review: Small Axe ends on a note of bittersweet hope
Education, the final film in Steve McQueen's Small Axe anthology, explores systemic racism in the British schooling system and the West Indian women who …
[Read more...] about Education Review: Small Axe ends on a note of bittersweet hope