Since 2016, Seventh Row has spotlighted our 20 favourite smaller films from the Toronto International Film Festival that were still seeking distributors in at least two of Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. We’ve checked in on these 60 films and tracked down where (or when) you can watch them.
Canadian cinema
Maxime Giroux discusses The Great Darkened Days
Québécois director Maxime Giroux tells us about The Great Darkened Days, his absurdist, poetic, and often brutal fable about the corruptive power of capitalism. This is an excerpt from our ebook The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook, which is available for purchase here.
Ep. 13: Patricia Rozema’s Mouthpiece
Mouthpiece is our favourite film of the year. Join our editors and theatre artist Laura Anne Harris for a podcast exploration of the film.
‘We want to show the joy and humour and love in our communities’: An interview with the filmmakers of The Grizzlies
Director Miranda de Pencier and Inuk producer Alethea Araquq-Baril discuss the making of The Grizzlies, telling Indigenous stories, and why de Pencier wanted to tell this story. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
Interview: The director and star of Firecrackers blaze onto our screens
Canadian rising stars Jasmin Mozaffari and star Michaela Kurimsky discuss Mozaffari’s evocative, energetic debut, Firecrackers. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
‘I wanted the film to be like a pop song’: Keith Behrman on Giant Little Ones
Canadian writer-director Keith Behrman on Giant Little Ones, a teen film about the ambiguity of sexual identity and the way internalized homophobia is poison to everyone.