Alanis Obomsawin's new short film, Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair, is a powerful presentation preserved on film. Click here to find all of our TIFF 2021 …
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Essential Indigenous films from the territories known as Canada
Here is Seventh Row's guide to essential Indigenous films told by Indigenous people from coast to coast across the territories known as Canada. Over a …
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Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers on her vital new documentary
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy chronicles the opioid crisis facing the people of the Kainai First Nation and how "harm reduction" practices can save …
HotDocs 2021 highlights, from Indigenous stories to animated histories
Seventh Row's editors pick the must see films of HotDocs 2021, from Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning Of Empathy to Archipelago. Read all our HotDocs 2021 …
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HotDocs Review: One of Ours explores identity under colonialism
Yasmine Mathurin's One of Ours is the story of Josiah Wilson, a Black twentysomething born in Haiti where he was adopted by a pair of Canadians — a white mother …
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Daughter of a Lost Bird Review: An Indigenous woman reconnects with her birth mother
In Daughter of a Lost Bird, Brooke Swaney sensitively documents an Indigenous woman reconnecting with her birth mother and coming to terms with how colonial …