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Women Directors

In honour of #52filmsbywomen, we've collected all of our reviews of films directed by women and interviews with female directors all in one place.

Alex Heeney / September 12, 2023

TIFF 23 Film Review: Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall

Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall is a courtroom drama and characters tudy about how we can never fully understand people’s private lives. Listen to our podcast …

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Alex Heeney / September 11, 2023

TIFF 23 Film Review: Hanna Slak’s Not a Word and Ninna Pálmadóttir’s Solitude

Hanna Slak's Not a Word and Ninna Pálmadóttir's Solitude are predictable films about intergenerational connections between lonely people but are elevated by …

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Alex Heeney / September 6, 2023

The best acquisition titles at TIFF 2023 (updating throughout the festival)

From Snow Leopard to The Tundra Within Me to Without Air, these are the best acquisition titles (films still seeking distribution in Canada, the US, and/or the …

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Alex Heeney / July 14, 2023

The 17 best films of 2023 so far

Alex Heeney reflects back on the best films of 2023 so far. Discover more Seventh Row Best of Lists here As usual, my list of the best films of the …

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Seventh Row Editors / July 13, 2023

Creative Nonfiction #5: Penny Lane on Confessions of a Good Samaritan and playing with form

In the fifth and final episode of our Creative Nonfiction Film podcast season, Penny Lane discusses her experiments with form in Confessions of a Good …

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Alex Heeney / July 1, 2023

Alice Winocour on the personal and national trauma of Revoir Paris

In this interview, Alice Winocour discusses telling a subjective story of coping with PTSD in her film Revoir Paris. Read our review of Revoir Paris. This is …

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