…church that happened over decades. There were several films at TIFF about state-sanctioned institutional oppression of women and marginalised groups around the world, including Unruly (set in Denmark in the…
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Stonewalling Film Review: Surviving an unwanted pregnancy
Alex Heeney reviews Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka’s film Stonewalling. China’s two-child policy casts a long shadow on twenty-year-old Lynn who finds herself with an unwanted pregnancy — and loses…
Fantasia Review: Just Remembering tells a romance in reverse
…Teruo’s wall clock that states the time, the date, and the day of the week, and as the years go back, so, too, do the days of the week. It’s…
Cannes Film Review: Manuela Martelli’s 1976 ratchets up the tension
…the website. Click here to sign up for the Seventh Row Newsletter. Manuela Martelli’s debut feature, 1976, is a film defined by a perpetual state of anxiety fueled by government…
Zoe Leigh Hopkins tells an uplifting story about healing in Run Woman Run
…(a fantastic Dakota Ray Hebert), who lives in Six Nations, the largest First Nations reserve in the state of Canada, and Hopkins’s father’s community (Hopkins currently lives there herself). Beck…
Oscar nominee Eskil Vogt on writing The Worst Person in the World
…But it’s definitely closer to her than the voiceover in Reprise is to the characters. It’s more of her state of mind or her needs for expression. Listen to our…