FINDING SALLY Premieres with Hot Docs at Home on CBC
We are very excited to announce that our newest distribution title, FINDING SALLY, will have its broadcast premiere with Hot Docs At Home on CBC on Thursday, April 30.
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
Best known for groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy works such as A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin defiantly held her ground on the margin of “respectable” literature until the sheer excellence of her work, at long last, forced the mainstream to embrace fantastic literature. Her […]
My Life without Air
How much can you fit between two breaths? MY LIFE WITHOUT AIR is a thrilling view of the wondrous world of a man whose most important moments in life take place underwater during one highly controlled breath. Unrelentingly shifting the boundaries of physicality, he persists beyond the possible, believing that upon return to the surface […]
CP Announces Jury for The Next 150 – Documentary Futurism Project
Three exceptional artists will select 15 winning proposals.
Deir Yassin Remembered
DEIR YASSIN REMEMBERED considers the repercussions of a largely forgotten massacre of almost 100 Palestinians in 1948. The massacre at Deir Yassin was pivotal to Palestinian dispossession. Though Deir Yassin has been partially acknowledged by Israelis, many other massacres of the time have not. The video not only gives an account of what happened at […]
Cinema Politica Launches Documentary Futurism – The Podcast
CP is thrilled to launch a new audio series that gives listeners a unique insight into the dynamic and engaged filmmaking process behind The Next 150—Documentary Futurism projects.
FINDING SALLY ’21 SCREEN AWARD NOMINATION
Cinema Politica is proud to announce that our Distribution title FINDING SALLY has been nominated for “Best Documentary Program” for the 2021 Canadian Screen Awards.
Uprooted Generation
Part poem and part documentary, this film is dedicated to the victims of residential schools. The film includes reflections on cultural disconnection, personal and community trauma, resilience, and the healing power of art.
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).
Category: Woman
When 18-year-old South African runner Caster Semenya burst onto the world stage in 2009, her championship was not celebrated, but marred by doubt, her personal medical records leaked to the international media. Was the public scrutiny of her body, driven by racism and sexism, questioning the most fundamental right of who she is and who […]
CAMFRANGLAIS Wins the CP 2019 Audience Choice Award
CAMFRANGLAIS, a futuristic story about linguistic sovereignty, melds streams of Indigenous futurism with Afrofuturism to imagine a not-so-distant world in 2117 …
Queer Content for Pride Month on CP VOD
We highlight three amazing films to watch online during pride month.
Cinema Politica x Vessel Thursday 18 September
You Are On Indian Land
Released in 1969, this short documentary was one of the most influential and widely distributed productions made by the Indian Film Crew (IFC), the first all-Indigenous unit at the NFB. It documents a 1969 protest by the Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) of Akwesasne, a territory that straddles the Canada–U.S. border. When Canadian authorities prohibited the duty-free cross-border […]
Singing Back The Buffalo Opens In Theatres Across Canada
SINGING BACK THE BUFFALO, the new feature length documentary from award-winning Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard, opens in select theatres across Canada!
Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky and the media
“The question is whether privileged elites should dominate mass communication, and should use this power as they tell us they must – namely to impose necessary illusions, to manipulate and deceive the stupid majority and remove them from the public arena. The question in brief is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved, […]
