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The Seventh Row podcast is a weekly in-depth panel discussion about films we love and how they make us feel.

Seventh Row editors build on each other’s ideas for greater insights, a team effort that we invite you to join. An episode accompanies every ebook, and we cover other films, too!

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Ep. 87: Couples dealing with cancer: Ordinary Love and Hope

We discuss Ordinary Love and Hope, two recent films about couples dealing with a cancer diagnosis. We compare the film’s depictions of relationships, hospitals, and cancer film tropes.
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April 14, 2021

Ep. 86: Depictions of childhood sexual assault: Una & Slalom

On this episode we discuss how two films, Una and the recent Slalom, depict the trauma of childhood sexual assault. We discuss the films’ messy navigation of depiction and questions of empathy and catharsis.
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April 7, 2021

Ep. 85: The Films of Naomi Kawase, featuring True Mothers

Naomi Kawase is one of the most prolific women directors in international cinema. In this episode, we look at her latest film True Mothers, re-visit the divisive Still the Water, and discuss other highlights from her filmography.
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March 31, 2021

Ep. 84: Berlinale 2021, Part 2: The Competition

We conclude our deep dive on Berlinale 2021, discussing the films in competition
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March 24, 2021

Ep. 83: Berlinale 2021, Part 1: The Sidebars

We begin our deep dive on Berlinale 2021, discussing the festival overall and the sidebar competitions.
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March 17, 2021

Ep. 82: Genocide on Film: Quo Vadis, Aida and Our Lady of the Nile

Jasmila Žbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida is one of the best films of the year. On this episode, we discuss it in context of Atiq Rahimi’s Our Lady of the Nile, another film approaching the theme of genocide with tremendous empathy towards the human cost rather than being a spectacle of suffering.
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March 9, 2021

Ep. 81: In Their Own Words: Fiction Directors

We’ve gathered a panel of editors who worked on our new ebook, In their Own Words: Fiction Directors, to talk about what is in the book, how it was made, and why it’s so exciting.
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March 2, 2021

Ep. 80: Motherhood in Horror: The Babadook and Prevenge

February is Women in Horror month and on this episode, to celebrate, we re-visit two of our favourites, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Alice Lowe’s Prevenge.
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February 23, 2021

Ep. 79: Sundance 2021, Part 2

This week we conclude our discussion of the best and worst of Sundance 2021, including CODA, Judas and the Black Messiah, Pleasure, and The World to Come.
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February 16, 2021

Ep. 78: Sundance 2021, Part 1

This week we begin our discussion of the best and worst of Sundance 2021
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February 9, 2021

Ep. 77: Deep Blue Sea(s)

On this episode we discuss two versions of Terence Ratigan’s 1952 play, The Deep Blue Sea.
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February 2, 2021

Ep. 76: Abderrahmane Sissako’s Bamako & Timbuktu

On this episode we look at two of Malian director Abderrahmane Sissako’s films, the newly restored Bamako, and one of our favourite films of the 2010s, Timbuktu. We also discuss locating African cinema and challenges in distribution and preservation.
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January 26, 2021

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