Reel Injun
Reel Injun is a documentary about cinema through the perspectives of the people who appeared in itsvery first flickering images and have survived to this day to tell their own stories with their own cameras.Diamond meets with Clint Eastwood (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, Unforgiven) at hisstudios in Burbank, […]
Essential new films for local screenings
A curated selection of essential new political documentaries available for local screenings through Cinema Politica, addressing resistance, justice, and social change worldwide.
Cinema Politica qathet – A Fidai Film
Love in a Time of Fentanyl
Our Bodies are Your Battlefield
Cinema Politica UCalgary – A Fidai Film
Cinema Politica Vienna – A Fidai Film
Three Powerful Docs Showcasing Community Healthcare
From Honduras to New York, this trio of docs captures three community-lead movements to create healthcare access for neglected populations.
Cinema Politica x Vessel Contemporary – 17 Dec
St Andrews Cinema Politica- Where Olive Trees Weep
20 Years, 20 Films: Commemorating Two Decades of Screening Truth to Power at Cinema Politica
Cinema Politica initially hatched at Montreal’s Concordia University in 2003, filling a lacuna in the world of contemporary film exhibition. Between the barrage of multiplexes and selective programming of repertory cinemas, there was a noted absence of bold political documentaries in the ecosystem. Over the following years, Cinema Politica launched a mission to refute neoliberal […]
A Fidai Film
Rat Film
Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. RAT FILM is a feature-length documentary that uses the rat—as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill them—to explore the history of Baltimore. “There’s never been a rat problem in Baltimore, it’s […]
A Fidai Film
Reel B75-92 shows scenes of orange-picking in Qalandia in 1957, which, according to the Hebrew description, are images of “terrorists”… They come from a collection of films and photos that were kept at the Palestine Research Centre in Beirut, until it was looted by the Israeli Army during the invasion of Southern Lebanon in 1982, […]
Colonialism & Indigenous Resistance on Film
A Playlist of films in Support of the Wet’suwet’en protests.
Real Man’s Film
In Balkans every generation has its war. Sons are continuing fights started by their fathers. There are rifles and pistols in every hand. Concentration of arms has reached a critical point. Even the smallest incident would be disastrous to this fragile peace. Watching children playing with toy guns makes you wander: what are we leaving […]
