I'm technically writing to you from Toronto, where the snow is starting to melt, and the skies are still stubbornly grey.

Even though I'm not at the Berlinale in person, my disembodied voice was there this morning at a panel on how we're discussing, talking about, and thinking about film in 2026.

(Which means my talk was something I recorded, and you can listen to it!

Even if, like me, you're on a different continent right now.)

Most of the wonderful panellists were discussing their work to put films in front of new audiences (through online platforms, TV stations, and programming) or how film criticism has evolved beyond written reviews.

(The Hollywood Reporter is on YouTube. And OFC people like me are in your podcast feed.)

I talked about something else.

Not how we find or watch films — but what we do once we’ve seen them.

Film festivals give us an excellent structure for discovering films.

They make encountering new work easy and exciting.

We don't have the same kind of structure for what happens after we've watched them.

Most spaces are about stating a take, talking about a film once, and moving on.

But what if you’re not done with it yet?

At Seventh Row, I've been designing spaces that give you the structure to discover something new in a film — not just discover a new film.

That's what I spoke about at the Berlinale.

Now on the podcast feed, you can hear me (and my still disembodied voice) talk about:

• Why the first conversation about a film can be just a starting point
• What actually shifts when you revisit a film with a different question
• And why perspective doesn’t have to depend on time alone

​You can listen to my Berlinale talk here →​