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A radical bicycle brigade of womxn of colour ride the streets of their neighbourhoods to fight patriarchy and organize alternative social structures.

 

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Australian activist & sex worker Rachel Wotton fights for sex worker rights and sexual expression for those who are differently abled.

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Cinema Politica exhibits, distributes, and streams independent political films. We believe in the power of art to not only entertain but to engage, inform, inspire, and provoke social change.

The Cinema Politica Network is made up of film exhibition sites and local member chapters across Canada and around the world.
With an ever-growing collection of firebrand films in our catalogue, CP Distribution brings provocative films to cinemas, institutions and communities.
Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso  ·  2022  ·  1h15m
Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso  ·  2022  ·  1h15m

Indigenous-made and centered, Powerlands shines an urgent light on land and water protectors’ resistance to corporate and state violence and the ongoing resource extraction mayhem.

Black Ice film still
Black Ice film still
Hubert Davis  ·  2022  ·  1h37m
Hubert Davis  ·  2022  ·  1h37m

This stunning film about systemic discrimination in Canadian sports is an astounding work of political art that moves gracefully between athletes’ lived experiences and resistance.

Dan Edelstyn & Hilary Powell  ·  2021  ·  1h27m
Dan Edelstyn & Hilary Powell  ·  2021  ·  1h27m

A filmmaker and artist couple ally with their community to take on the world of finance by setting up a bank, printing their own money and exploding pounds of high interest debt.

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