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Wherever you are in the world, this week, there's a good chance you can now stream (or rent) one of the best films of 2020, which is also Canadian, Nadia Butterfly, as well as rent one of the delights of the LGBTQ+ film circuit, Sublet. The great queer drama Princess Cyd is also streaming worldwide on Mubi.
As Canada and the US have holidays this week commemorating the genocide of Indigenous Peoples, this is a great time to reflect and learn about Indigenous Peoples, and film is a great way to do that! We recommend some of the best Indigenous films from the territories now known as Canada, all of which are available widely across the world.
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As Canada and the US have national holidays this week which ostensibly celebrate the genocide of Indigenous Peoples, we thought it was high time to recommend catching up with the best Indigenous stories on screen from the territories known as Canada.
We recently published a list of essential Indigenous films, which you can read here. This is a selection of those which are available worldwide.
Angry Inuk is available to stream free on the NFB website and CBC Gem. It’s streaming on AMC+, Tubi, Kanopy, and Film Movement Plus in the US. It’s streaming on Prime in the UK, and filmzie.com internationally.
From the introduction to our interview with director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril:
From the introduction to our interview with director Darlene Naponse:
Although Sublet has secured US distribution, it's yet to be released elsewhere, so this is a rare chance to see it worldwide.
Here's an excerpt from Orla's review:
Read full review.
Click here for tickets.
One of the best films of 2020 (a Cannes label film to boot!) is now finally available outside of Canada!
Here's an excerpt from the intro to my interview with director Pascal Plante:
Read Orla's interview with CSA-nominated cinematographer Stéphanie Anne Weber Biron.
This recently made our list of 25 unsung queer cinema treasures.
Stephen Cone’s Princess Cyd is the story of a queer teenage girl, Cyd (Jessie Pinnick), and her aunt, Miranda (Rebecca Spence) navigating their sexual and religious identities during a summer spent together in Chicago. The open, athletic, and chatty Cyd — who doesn’t read — quickly clashes with her quiet, famous author aunt who hasn’t been in her life for years; Miranda’s seriousness about her religion causes further clashes because Cyd is less sure of her spirituality. Cyd has a boyfriend back home but quickly falls for Mohawked barista Katie (Malic White). Over the course of three weeks, Cyd and Miranda talk, go to the beach, hang out with Miranda’s friends, and slowly find a way to connect. It’s a sweet and lovely film about two lonely people finding something in each other. Better still, Cone fully fleshes out the community around them.
Princess Cyd is also available on Kanopy and Tubi in Canada and the US, Hulu in the US, and Prime in the US and UK.
Watch our masterclass with Stephen Cone and Ashley McKenzie.
Best,
Alex Heeney, Editor-in-Chief
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Seventh Row is a nonprofit Canadian film criticism publication and publishing house. We're dedicated to helping you expand your horizons by curating the best socially progressive films from around the world and helping you think deeply about them. This newsletter is run by Seventh Row (http://seventh-row.com) but features exclusive content not found on the website.
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