Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn’s The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open explores difficulties in communication between two Indigenous women with very different viewpoints and life experiences
Canadian cinema
TIFF19 review: Kuessipan , a standout Indigenous coming-of-age story
Myriam Verreault’s Kuessipan is a captivating story about two teenage girl’s friendship on a Quebec Innu reserve
TIFF Establishing Shots: Heather Young on her first feature, Murmur
Writer-director Heather Young discusses her feature debut, Murmur, working with animals and non-actors, and developing the film’s formal aesthetic.
TIFF acquisition films – where are they now?
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.
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.