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CP Concordia Launches its Fall Program
Our Fall 2025 lineup is a fertile program of documentary that refutes the premise of a predetermined future — tomorrow is ours to make!
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Planting trees for fuel, shade, and food is not something that anyone would imagine as the first step toward winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet with that simple act Wangari Maathai, a woman born in rural Kenya, started down the path that reclaimed her country’s land from 100 years of deforestation, provided new sources of […]
The Crossing (George Kurian, 2015)
Karuara, People Of The River
Deep in Peru’s Amazon region, the Marañón River is home to a vast network of spirit villages ruled by the Karuara, or “People of the River.” Through enchanting hand-painted animation that fills the frame with vibrant compositions, we are transported inside the river world, where spirits lounge in hammocks made of boa constrictors and smoke […]
LOVE IN THE TIME OF FENTANYL
Someone Lives Here
Ljubav u doba fentanila
Fairy Creek Premieres in Montreal
FAIRY CREEK documents the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history, a blockade which made international headlines and broke records with nearly 1,200 people arrested for protesting to protect British Columbia’s last old-growth forests.
Ana Square
For already 40 years, without a single day of rest, Ana has been coming in front of the city church to sell the religious calendars and rosaries; in sun, in snow, in rain, on Sundays and holidays. She is receiving a regular pension and she doesn’t belong to the lowest stratum of society, but she […]
Defiance: Fighting The Far Right
Defiance: Fighting the Far Right shines a light on an extraordinary protest movement led by young British Asians in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, and others joined arms to oppose the anti-immigrant rhetoric, assaults, and even murders waged against their communities. When authorities and far right politicians ignored or, even worse, encouraged […]
We Might Have Been Heroes
In the year 2020, all untapped minerals in the bowels of the earth were diluted and transformed into poisonous gases by the Aqua Regia Storm. Expelled through every open pit mine on the planet, the gas leak killed around 80 percent of the total world population in less than a month. Fifty years after, located […]
Shadows of Liberty
Based on Ben Bagdikian’s critically acclaimed book The Media Monopoly, SHADOWS OF LIBERTY by Quebec filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay takes an intrepid journey through the darker corridors of the American media landscape, where global media conglomerates exercise extraordinary political, social, and economic power. The overwhelming collective power of these firms raises troubling questions about democracy. Unravelling […]
Pressure Point: Inside the Montreal Blockade
Opération SalAMI was a civil disobedience action in May 1998. On this occasion, several hundred people surrounded the Sheraton Center in downtown Montreal for five hours, delaying the opening of the most important annual meeting of North America’s commercial, financial, political and academic elite dealing with globalization. The protestors were part of a citizen’s network […]
Cinema Politica Network: COVID-19 Update
As we watch the COVID-19 pandemic unfold on a global scale, we urge our locals to suspend their screening activities in accordance with the public health recommendations of their area.
Club Native
Club Native is a candid and deeply moving look at the pain, confusion and frustration suffered by many First Nations people as they struggle for the most important right of all: the right to belong. On the Mohawk reserve of Kahnawake, located just outside the city of Montreal, Canada, there are two firm but unspoken […]
