Still from Khartoum showing a tree in the Sudanese landscape, symbolizing resilience amid displacement and civil unrest.
 

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Cinema Politica is accepting submissions of critical and urgent political films. We don’t charge submissions fees and our network reaches all across Canada and abroad, offering your film the chance to connect with a diverse range of audiences and activists.
 

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It’s our pleasure to announce the winner of our annual Audience Choice Award is Karen Cho’s BIG FIGHT IN LITTLE CHINATOWN with Fil Ieropoulos’ AVANT-DRAG! as a runner-up!
 

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As worldwide fascist powers ascend and endeavour to squash the working class and their organizing efforts, we encourage you to spend International Workers’ Day honouring the efforts of labour advocates.
Forest defenders marching through a clear-cut logging site during the Fairy Creek protests
 

A gripping immersion into the frontlines of the historic Fairy Creek blockade, where thousands of activists participate in a do-or-die protest to save BC's old growth forests.

 

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A curated selection of essential new political documentaries available for local screenings through Cinema Politica, addressing resistance, justice, and social change worldwide.
 

A haunting plunge into the Canadian archive, recapturing a 1969 student protest at Montreal’s Sir George Williams University against the administration’s anti-Black racism.

 

In the mesmerizing experimental film, Maryam Tafakory conjures an archival séance, unpacking the history of Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper.

A crowd of people holding protest signs during a Toronto demonstration featured in A Letter to My Tribe, a film exploring solidarity and resistance.
 

b.h. Yael offers an intimate essay film that reflects on the colonization of Palestine and her family’s story, combining archival images with diary narration.

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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.
Mama Ganuush, Teodor Vladár, Dua Omari, Huss AC, R.R. & John Greyson  ·  2026  ·  1h1m
Mama Ganuush, Teodor Vladár, Dua Omari, Huss AC, R.R. & John Greyson  ·  2026  ·  1h1m

An eclectic, uncompromising anthology of short films by queer Palestinian filmmakers and queer filmmakers in solidarity with Palestine.

Aris Chatzistefanou  ·  2014  ·  1h23m
Aris Chatzistefanou  ·  2014  ·  1h23m

Several illuminating and international stories of life under fascism, from Mussolini's Italy to Nazi-occupied Greece.

Mai Masri  ·  2007  ·  1h10m
Mai Masri  ·  2007  ·  1h10m

A startling and courageous document of four civilians' struggle for survival during Israel's brutal 2006 war on Lebanon.

Maryam Tafakory  ·  2024  ·  28m
Maryam Tafakory  ·  2024  ·  28m

In the mesmerizing experimental film, Maryam Tafakory conjures an archival séance, unpacking the history of Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper.

Katharina Stieffenhofer  ·  2017  ·  1h27m
Katharina Stieffenhofer  ·  2017  ·  1h27m

In this uplifting eco-doc, two opera singers-turned-agriculture workers try to sustain a Manitoban organic farm against the ravages of climate change.

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