The Battle of Rabaska – Chronicle of an Environmental Conflict
Building large industrial plants in a community always raises questions about public consultation and democracy, but when these mega-projects involve fossil fuels, the discussion also becomes environmental. Over four years, filmmakers Magnus Isacsson and Martin Duckworth follow the battle fought by citizens against the Rabaska consortium’s methane tanker terminal planned for the south shore of […]
Silence is Gold
What are the limits to freedom of speech? Can we put a price on our spoken and written words? Following the 2008 release of the book Noir Canada, author Alain Deneault, his co-writers and his publisher, Éditions Écosociété, grappled with these questions – at great personal expense – after being sued for defamation in Quebec […]
CP Concordia is hiring: Volunteer Coordinator
Cinema Politica Concordia is seeking a dynamic and resourceful Volunteer Coordinator with a passion for community engagement. This role involves recruiting and coordinating new and returning volunteers, actively organizing postering and flyering campaigns, managing on-site event logistics, and conducting community outreach within the Concordia and Montreal communities.
SILVICOLA – In Theatres at The Westdale
SILVICOLA – In Theatres at Cinéma Public
World Premiere of DEAR JACKIE at RIDM
Aswang
ASWANG is a poetically composed inquisition into Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s reign of terror that unleashed death squads in a so-called “war on drugs”. Invoking the Filipino mythology of the aswang, or evil shape-shifting spirits, director Alyx Ayn G. Arumpac takes the viewer on a journey through the lower-income communities of Manila that were most […]
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
Unarmed Verses
In the feature documentary UNARMED VERSES, acclaimed filmmaker Charles Officer creates a thoughtful and vivid portrait of a family and a community facing a difficult transition. The largely low-income residents of a rental housing block in Toronto’s north-east end are threatened with imposed relocation due to the impending demolition of the place they call home. […]
The Coca-Cola Case
Colombia is the trade union murder capital of the world. Since 2002, more than 470 workers’ leaders have been brutally killed, usually by paramilitaries hired by private companies intent on crushing the unions. Among these unscrupulous corporate brands is the poster boy for American business: Coca-Cola. Talk to Martin Gil: His brother Isidro was killed […]
Anti-Social Limited
Anti-Social Limited is a sequel to the Gemini Award winning documentary Broke. Intimate and multilayered, the film tells a very tragic, but also beautiful story of a man trying to find love and a place where he belongs.“You know you’ve screwed up in life when you can rate every prison in Canada on a five star basis.”First […]
Our Dance of Revolution
“We are people of revolution. We’re here because others have rebelled. Because others have stood in solid resistance!” Listening to Angela, a Black lesbian feminist who is rousing a crowd, we understand that, no, this particular revolution wasn’t televised. Rather, from out of the shadows, it was embraced, chanted, marched and danced into existence. OUR […]
5 Broken Cameras
No Land No Food No Life screening
The Garden Collective
THE GARDEN COLLECTIVE follows the Prison for Women (P4W) Memorial Collective as they work to build a memorial garden on the grounds of the former Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario. Operating between 1934 to 2000, this was Canada’s only prison for women, notorious for its abuse and unethical scientific experiments. The film examines the […]
