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2016
Not Rated
Film Movement
1 h 16 m

2016
Not Rated
Film Movement
1 h 16 m

Summary When Rob Brown, a Native American gang leader on a remote Minnesota reservation, is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his beloved Ojibwe community. As Rob reckons with his past, his seventeen-year-old protégé, Kevin, dreams of the future— becoming the most powerful an...

Directed By: Jack Riccobono

Written By: Shane Slattery-Quintanilla, Andrew Ford, Jack Riccobono

2016
Not Rated
Film Movement
1 h 16 m

2016
Not Rated
Film Movement
1 h 16 m

The Seventh Fire

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews

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Summary When Rob Brown, a Native American gang leader on a remote Minnesota reservation, is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his beloved Ojibwe community. As Rob reckons with his past, his seventeen-year-old protégé, Kevin, dreams of the future— becoming the most powerful an...

Directed By: Jack Riccobono

Written By: Shane Slattery-Quintanilla, Andrew Ford, Jack Riccobono

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Robert Duane Brown

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Kevin Fineday Jr.

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Albino Garcia

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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews

67% Positive
8 Reviews

25% Mixed
3 Reviews

8% Negative
1 Review

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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews

67% Positive
8 Reviews

25% Mixed
3 Reviews

8% Negative
1 Review

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Time Out London

Jul 21, 2016

An empathetic, often heartbreaking piece of work, at times tough to watch – one party scene is particularly grim and confrontational – at others calm and contemplative.

By Tom Huddleston FULL REVIEW

Jul 13, 2016

Riccobono neither condemns nor sympathises, maintaining a commendable neutrality, as his subjects frank testimony paves the way to jail cells.

By Matthew Anderson FULL REVIEW

Jul 13, 2016

This is spare-but-effective filmmaking.

By Dan Mecca FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Jul 13, 2016

The first couple of reels are very loosely structured, with no one identified onscreen, which gives the film a verite edge but which also means that it takes a good while for the material to find its footing and make it clear what and, more importantly, who, the film is exactly about.

By Boyd van Hoeij FULL REVIEW

Jul 25, 2016

The Seventh Fire is stirring for how it chips away at the relationship between hopelessness and helplessness.

By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW

Jul 21, 2016

A gruelling watch and a searing indictment of America's disregard for its indigenous peoples.

By David Parkinson FULL REVIEW

Jul 17, 2016

The documentary renders poverty a mysterious entity instead of a curable malady of systemic exclusion.

By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW

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Production Company All Rites Reserved, Sundial Pictures

Release Date Jul 22, 2016

Duration 1 h 16 m

Rating Not Rated

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Website http://www.theseventhfire.com/

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Awards

Native American Film Festival Of The Southeast

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

East End Film Festival, UK

• 1 Nomination

Stockholm Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

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