Seventh Row’s editors pick the best performances of TIFF 2021, from Jack Lowden in Benediction to Sigourney Weaver in The Good House.
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Ahed’s Knee review: A filmmaker fights personal and political battles
Nadav Lapid’s Ahed’s Knee, which just screened at TIFF, chronicles a filmmaker’s rage against both government censorship and the impending death of his mother.
Arsalan Amiri on making a realistic genre film, Zalava, in Iran
Writer-director Arsalan Amiri and co-writer Ida Panahandeh discuss their first foray into genre territory, Zalava, which won prizes at the Venice International Film Festival.
Ep. 110: Weekend and End of the Century: Brief encounters
For its 10th anniversary, we discuss Andrew Haigh’s Weekend on the podcast, along with another brief encounter film, End of the Century
‘We are a nation of stories and poems’: Khadar Ayderus Ahmed on The Gravedigger’s Wife
Writer-director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed discusses making his feature debut, The Gravedigger’s Wife, a love story set in Djibouti City.
Ali & Ava review: Clio Barnard crafts a lovely Bradford-set romance
Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava stars Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook as two kindhearted people with complicated pasts falling in love.