Faire-Part
Two Congolese and two Belgian filmmakers decided to film the explosion of political art in Kinshasa, in the process making a rare portrait of the country. What does it mean to collaborate on a film project when your partners come from the opposite side of colonial history? Who should the film be for? What is […]
COVER/AGE
COVER/AGE examines the lack of healthcare access for undocumented immigrants in California, and how two undocumented individuals are advocating to fight this exclusion. One protagonist is Emma, an elderly Pilipina caregiver, who has spent over a decade providing care for others. Over the course of the film, we see Emma get ready early in the […]
Manic
MANIC chronicles Montreal-based filmmaker Kalina Bertin’s struggle to make sense of the legacy of mental illness that is shaping her siblings’ lives. Convinced that her father holds a key piece of the puzzle, she sets out to find the truth about him, and discovers a man known alternately as a cult leader, a scam artist, […]
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 …
CP Pandemic Playlist Vol 2: Health and Community Care
From front-line workers caring for those infected, to those working with grieving loved ones, to those providing crucial services – care has never been so urgent, nor so integral …
Mi’kmaq Fishing Rights and Food Security on World Food Day
On this World Food Day, we thought it worth highlighting the ongoing violation of sovereign Mi’kmaq fishing rights in Nova Scotia.
Documentary Futurism: The Next 150
How do we document that which has yet to occur? Cinema Politica’s Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 project seeks to usher in a new kind of filmmaking that brings actuality into conversation with speculation, and realism with the imaginary. Taking inspiration from Afrofuturism, Indigenous futurism, speculative fiction and non-fiction, these 15 films inaugurate a new […]
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 …
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 …
MANIC and SHADOWS OF LIBERTY Now Available for Streaming
We’ve added MANIC and SHADOWS OF LIBERTY, two award-winning and timely films by Quebec filmmakers, to our streaming services!
Finding Sally
FINDING SALLY is a riveting portrait of a family history cast against the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution, uncovering the incredible story of a 23-year-old woman from an upper-class family who became a communist rebel with the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party. Idealistic and in love, Sally got caught up in her country’s revolutionary fervour, landing on the […]
Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
We stand in defiance of oppressive and violent systems and institutions founded on centuries-long histories of slavery and genocide and the vile legacy of white supremacy and colonialism …
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.
FINDING SALLY Premiere at Hot Docs Online Festival
FINDING SALLY North American premiere with the Hot Docs Online Festival on Thursday, May 28 until Monday June 6.
The Cancer Journals Revisited
THE CANCER JOURNALS REVISITED is prompted by the question of what it means to re-visit and re-vision Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience today. At the invitation of filmmaker Lana Lin, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, twenty-seven writers, artists, activists, health care advocates, and […]
Haiti Betrayed
As Canadians, we often take pride in our international reputation as peacekeepers and defenders of democracy. But there is a dark side to our foreign policy — a policy that has thwarted the Haitian people’s struggles for freedom and self-determination over the last two decades. In 1986, Haitians joined their voices together in a cry […]