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From time to time Cinema Politica publishes pamphlets, booklets, and more recently, a real, physical, bonafide BOOK.
Fluid Frames from the Palestinian Diaspora
March 19, 2021 – March 24, 2021 Fluid Frames from the Palestinian Diaspora showcases work from Palestinian filmmakers based in the country known as Canada, featuring filmmakers Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy, Razan Alsalah, Serene Husni, Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, and Rehab Nazzal. This program of provocative films visualizes displacement while exploring the paradox of simultaneously being temporary and permanent as a refugee, the distress […]
Report Back on OSER RÊVER DE JUSTICE
A successful QC tour of Migrant Dreams. Status for All! Justice for Migrant Workers!
CP ON DEMAND: Top 10 For 2020
Cinema Politica continues to bring you inspiring independent documentaries available through CP On Demand, and we’ve compiled a brief list of our top screened films this year from our streaming platforms!
FINDING SALLY and ANOTHER WORD FOR LEARNING at DOXA
FINDING SALLY and ANOTHER WORD FOR LEARNING will be screening online at DOXA from Thursday, June 18 until Friday June 26.
Preempting Dissent
The creative commons documentary PREEMPTING DISSENT builds upon the book of the same name written by Greg Elmer and Andy Opel. The film is a culmination of a collaborative process of soliciting, collecting and editing video, still images, and creative commons music files from people around the world. Preempting Dissent interrogates the expansion of the so-called “Miami-Model” of […]
FROM GROUND ZERO
Grâce à un engagement frappant de l’auteur dans l’allégorie et l’actualité créative, les témoignages de ces cinéastes sur leur enfermement sous des bombardements incessants et une famine imposée exposent le public à des fragments de leur lutte quotidienne pour survivre – et pour le faire avec dignité. Soft Skin de Khamis Masharawi s’intéresse à un […]
Cinema Politica Pandemic Playlist Vol 1: Labour and Community
Volume 1 of Cinema Politica’s Pandemic Playlists examines labour and community through a dozen feature and short films.
Monica Gutierrez on Canada’s debt
#ComfortableTruth: Migrants owe Canada for the opportunity to be here. Check out Monica Gutierrez’s reflections and video response here.
New in Cinema Politica Catalogue: Fall 2020 Titles
We have many fantastic new titles to discover, and while it is not the same as hosting in-person screenings, there is solace in the sense of community we can still cultivate online …
Enregistrement : Images fluides de la diaspora palestinienne
FLUID FRAMES FROM THE PALESTINIAN DIASPORA présente les œuvres de cinéastes palestiniens basés dans le pays connu sous le nom de Canada. Cette discussion en direct a réuni les cinéastes Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy, Razan AlSalah, Rana Nazzal Hamadeh et Serene Husni …
Cinema Politica On Demand Films for International Women’s Day
From Indigenous Lenca and Garifuna resistance in Honduras and the armed vigilante Gulabi Gang fighting femicide in India, to the pharmaceutical industry’s commodification of the female orgasm …
Guilda: Elle est bien dans ma peau
There doesn’t seem to be enough epithets to describe Jean Guilda: comedian, singer, costume and make-up innovator, transvestite extraordinaire. It seems the best one, however, is the simplest: artist. Elegantly talented and altogether groundbreaking, Guilda – his stage name recalling his real last name, as well as Rita Hayworth’s portrayal of Gilda, that indomitable mame […]
Granny Power
GRANNY POWER is a documentary about a very original activist movement – the Raging Grannies. Spanning 10 years, the film follows several passionate, activist grandmothers and their “gaggles” as they fight for peace, social justice and the environment. From Occupy Wall Street sites in Canada and the U.S., to demontrations against nuclear arms, the Montebello […]
Crimes Without Honour
Every winter in a Stockholm cemetery activists gather to honour Fadime, a Turkish immigrant to Sweden murdered by her father in 2002. Internationalizing the debate over cultural traditions that accept the use of violence to control women’s behaviour in Western immigrant communities, four extraordinary activists tell their personal stories of physical and emotional violence, and […]
Wal-Town: The Film
Six student activists. Thirty-six Canadian towns. One giant corporation. A daunting experiment in activism. A group of six university students, calling themselves Wal-Town, take to the Canadian highway over two summers. Armed with thousands of pamphlets and fliers—with one gonzo journalist along for the ride—they visit 36 of Canada’s more than 200 Wal-Mart stores with […]
