In 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 most of her agency along the way.
World Cinema
Full Time: a heart-pounding thriller from Éric Gravel
Éric Gravel’s second feature film is a heart-pounding thriller about a single working mom pushed to her breaking point.
The 20 best films of 2022 so far
Seventh Row’s editors pick the twenty best films of 2022 so far, from Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard) to Fabian – Going to the Dogs (Dominik Graf) and more.
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic on her film Murina
In this interview, Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic discusses her Caméra d’Or winning feature, Murina
Fantasia Review: Just Remembering tells a romance in reverse
Japanese writer-director Daigo Matsui’s Just Remembering is a romance told in reverse order that not only acknowledges COVID but incorporates some sense of how it’s changed our lives into the film’s store.
Fantasia Review: Nuno Beato’s My Grandfather’s Demons
The first animated feature out of Portugal, Nuno Beato’s My Grandfather’s Demons, uses digital and stop-motion animation to tell a story of intergenerational trauma on the border between reality and fairytale.