HAK_MTL
We are in 2019 and privacy no longer exists. In less than one generation, the internet has become a mass surveillance machine. The business model that propulses this machine can be summed up by a simple saying: If it’s free, you’re the product. All the traces we leave of ourselves on the internet are captured, […]
Cinema Politica Acquires INNOCENCE for Distribution
Cinema Politica is thrilled to announce the Canadian premiere of INNOCENCE by Academy Awards nominated director Guy Davidi at the Hot Docs International Documentary Festival.
Children 404
CHILDREN 404 spotlights the lives of Russian LGBTQ+ youth struggling with decisions to remain in their home country or build a new life abroad, while offering a glimpse at the country’s deeply rooted conservatism. In 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin passed a bill forbidding the “promotion of nontraditional sexual relations to minors.” LGBT youth, now […]
Naila and the Uprising
When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in 1987, a woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time. The film revolves around the […]
This Stained Dawn
Karachi’s feminists organise a woman’s march, coming up against Pakistan’s radical religious right as “my body, my choice” becomes a controversial slogan that holds the country’s imagination in its grip. Filmmaker Anam Abbas follows the march’s organisers as they negotiate a deeply surveilled, paranoia-inducing, and often physically violent space in the hopes of spurring a […]
