The Apology
THE APOLOGY follows the personal journeys of three former “comfort women” who were among the 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Some 70 years after their imprisonment in so-called “comfort stations”, the three “grandmothers”—Grandma Gil in South Korea, Grandma Cao in China, and Grandma Adela […]
Portia White: Think on Me
FINITE: Klima promjene
Cinema Politica Groningen presents Notes on Displacement by Khaled Jarrar
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)
LOVE IN THE TIME OF FENTANYL
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 […]
Ljubav u doba fentanila
Someone Lives Here
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!
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 […]
