Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy chronicles the opioid crisis facing the people of the Kainai First Nation and how “harm reduction” practices can save them.
Film Festivals
Visions du Réel 2021 spotlights nonfiction films pushing the form forward
The 2021 Visions du Réel film festival featured boundary-pushing nonfiction films, with highlights including Sheltered and Les Guérisseurs.
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.
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 violence has shaped her life.
Everything in the End: Mylissa Fitzsimmons on making her no-budget feature debut
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.
A virtual 2021 San Francisco International Film Festival
The 2021 San Francisco International Film Festival went virtual and featured highlights such as the Dry, Skies of Lebanon, and In the Same Breath.