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Heartbreak
Conceived and produced in response to the call for the inaugural #TIFFxInstagram Shorts Festival, HEARTBREAK is a poetic moment paused for Black motherhood, for Black bodies and Black resilience. The 60 second film is a tribute to black women and the difficulty of raising Black children (particularly boys) in our society. The idea for the film […]
Silvicola entame sa tournée sur l’île de Vancouver
SILVICOLA revient sur l’île de Vancouver pour sept événements spéciaux, du 5 au 11 octobre, en présence du réalisateur et d’invités locaux. La tournée du film est organisée en collaboration avec le Sierra Club BC, qui la co-sponsorise.
Cinema Politica Versions
Launched in 2012, Cinema Politica has teamed up with professional translators and language students to offer French and English versions of single-language films and videos, facilitating greater exposure of and access to art works made in one of Canada’s two official languages.
Unsettling 150
Two Canadian-based film organizations—VTape and Cinema Politica—are joining together to offer a program of films and video that challenge, disrupt and unsettle dominant narratives that have storied Canada on the occasion of the state’s sesquicentennial celebrations. The films are available for free streaming across the country for the duration of the « Canada Day » weekend (June 30-July 2).
Consultez notre dernier catalogue éducatif
Nous dévoilons le catalogue éducatif 2022-2023 de Cinema Politica ! Cet impressionnant catalogue de 135 titres comprend des films couvrant un éventail impressionnant de sujets, de thèmes et de disciplines académiques.
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 …
Travail, art et activisme
La nouvelle collection Magnus Isacsson présente une sélection d’œuvres clés et de classiques de cet important réalisateur canadien qui aborde les thèmes du travail, de l’art et de l’activisme.
(T)error
After working for more than 20 years as a counterterrorism informant for the FBI, Saeed « Shariff » Torres has a choice to make. He can stay home to raise his son or do one last high-stakes job for the Bureau. Infiltrating terror networks and befriending suspected terrorists is Torres’s specialty. He is one of a growing number […]
Recording: Ashley O’Shay (UNAPOLOGETIC) + Guests
A conversation with UNAPOLOGETIC director Ashley O’Shay and guests, inspired by movements against police brutality and demands to defund the police.
CHER JACKIE a l’affiche le 17 juin
Cinema Politica Distribution et Catbird Productions sont ravis d’annoncer la première en salle de CHER JACKIE, le premier long métrage documentaire d’Henri Pardo qui sortira dans les salles de cinéma de Montréal le vendredi 17 juin.
Ariel Nasr’s THE MOSQUE: A COMMUNITY’S STRUGGLE
As we commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Quebec City mosque shooting, we can turn to documentary film as a powerful medium of remembrance and dialogue. THE MOSQUE: A COMMUNITY’S STRUGGLE by filmmaker Ariel Nasr offers a vital glimpse at the resilience of a Muslim community in Ste-Foy, Québec in the aftermath of January 29th, 2017 when […]
Recording: Ethiopia Then and Now – Tamara Dawit and Special Guests
By unpacking family and national history, ETHIOPIA THEN AND NOW explored the responsibility of narrative construction in documentary film, literary writing, journalism, and historical scholarship.
SWEET CRUDE Released in Memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa
SWEET CRUDE is released in commemoration of author and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was executed by hanging on November 10, 1995 …
CODED BIAS discussion with Shalini Kantayya
Cinema Politica Concordia co-hosted a discussion with CODED BIAS director Shalini Kantayya about racial and gender discrimination that is coded into algorithmic technology …
Cinema Politica co-présente la projection dans le cadre de Queer Cinema for Palestine
Cinema Politica est fier de coprésenter le programme QUEER FOR PALESTINE dans le cadre du festival inaugural Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP). Le QCP se déroule du 11 au 20 novembre et organise plus d’une douzaine d’événements sur les cinq continents, en ligne et en personne.
