Cinema Politica On Demand Films for International Women’s Day
From Indigenous Lenca and Garifuna resistance in Honduras and the armed vigilante Gulabi Gang fighting femicide in India, to the pharmaceutical industry’s commodification of the female orgasm …
Submit Your Politically-Engaged Films to Cinema Politica!
Cinema Politica is collecting submissions for politically-engaged films to screen in our network!
NOTES ON DISPLACEMENT – Sofia International Film Festival
CFS – Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada
The representation of Blackness and the lives of Black people on screen has a long, dynamic and troubled history in Canada.
Challenge Nationalism on National Canadian Film Day with These On Demand Docs
Looking for critical Cancon on Canadian Film Day 150? We’ve got you covered.
Seven Indigenous-Centered Films for National Indigenous History Month
In honour of National Indigenous History Month this June, we’re excited to shine a light on a selection of seven critically acclaimed and award-winning Indigenous-made and Indigenous-focused films.
CP Groningen at the Colombian Migrant Film Festival!
Cinema Politica co-presents Regent Park Film Festival’s “Faces of Resistance”
Cinema Politica is proud to co-present the “Faces of Resistance” program, alongside Shorts That Are Not Pants, as part of the 2021 Regent Park Film Festival. This collection of films reflects on the journeys of people who, either deliberately or unintentionally, defy the expectations and limitations placed on them by oppressive systems.
St Andrews Cinema Politica- Where Olive Trees Weep
OUR BODIES ARE YOUR BATTLEFIELDS – Sofia International Film Festival
Singing Back the Buffalo to Premiere at the 2024 Hot Docs Film Festival
Richly visualised and deeply uplifting, SINGING BACK THE BUFFALO from award-winning Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard will have its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Hot Docs Film Festival.
SG̲aawaay Ḵ’uuna – Film Screening and Q & A with Director Gwaai Edenshaw
LABOR – Cinema Politica premiere at Sofia International Film Festival
DEIR YASSIN REMEMBERED Film Screening and Discussion with b.h. Yael
Tracing Blood
When Maria falls asleep while trying to find a connection to her estranged family, a mysterious figure appears to her and leads her on a surreal journey that is full of surprises and unexpected lessons. In this experimental film-made debut, Tracing Blood tells the story of one woman’s search for family and the deep-rooted connectedness […]
Revolutionary Medicine: A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital
Could a remote hospital that runs on solar panels, in a community without paved roads or electricity, provide a global model for health care? Since arriving in Honduras in 1797, the Garifuna people have struggled against exclusion, discrimination and dispossession of their land. Today, their first hospital provides holistic care, for free, without receiving a […]
