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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.

A still from Mouthpiece on the left and a Twitter feed of reactions to the film on the right.

Seventh Row Editors / October 6, 2020

Screening recap: Mouthpiece moved and engaged our readers. Here are their thoughts…

Last weekend we held a free online screening of Patricia Rozema’s Mouthpiece, and the feedback was rapturous. Here are some of our favourite reactions.

A collage of stills from the film Mouthpiece, with the headshot of editor Lara Johnston in front of them. The text reads, 'Interview'.

Orla Smith / October 3, 2020

Lara Johnston dissects her award winning editing on Mouthpiece

Lara Johnston discusses the challenges of editing flashbacks and musical scenes in Mouthpiece.

A still from Beans, featuring young actress Kiawentiio as Beans and Rainbow Dickerson as her mother, Lily.

Alex Heeney / September 23, 2020

TIFF Review: Beans offers a child’s eye view of the Oka crisis

Tracey Deer’s Beans is a deeply flawed but incredibly moving about a 12-year-old Mohawk girl’s political awakening during the Oka crisis.

Saul Willliams as Akilla, bathed in red lighting, in Akilla's Escape.

B. P. Flanagan / September 23, 2020

TIFF Review: Akilla’s Escape is a tempered Saul Williams showcase

Charles Officer’s Akilla’s Escape works best at its most stripped back, but too often the film gets caught up in tired crime tropes.

An Indigenous man in a traditional headdress surveys the landscape in Inconvenient Indian. In the foreground of the image is director Michelle Latimer. The text on the images reads 'Interview'.

Alex Heeney / September 22, 2020

TIFF Interview: Michelle Latimer on Indigenous agency in Inconvenient Indian

Michelle Latimer discusses Inconvenient Indian, her award winning essay film, and reclaiming cultural images of Indigenous people.

A still from The New Corporation.

B. P. Flanagan / September 20, 2020

TIFF Review: The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel is less than necessary

Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan’s The New Corporation is a documentary sequel to The Corporation that’s not as radical as it thinks it is.

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