Colonialism & Indigenous Resistance on Film
A Playlist of films in Support of the Wet’suwet’en protests.
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.
Twyla Roscovich: A Dedicated Activist and Filmmaker Whose Legacy Will Last Lifetimes
Cinema Politica’s Ezra Winton remembers a friend and ally.
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.
Vote For The 2025 Audience Choice Award
The time has come, once again, to vote for the winner of the Cinema Politica Audience Choice Award.
Queer Cinema For Palestine: Call for Submissions!
For the third year, Cinema Politica is partnering with Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP) to curate a program of solidarity-building, intersectional films.
Black History Month: Celebrating Black Legacies
To celebrate Black History Month, Cinema Politica is spotlighting three empowering docs, each covering a distinct, Black-led protest movement from North American history.
Razeh-del
In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film. Using citations and image intervention, Razeh-del journeys through parallel histories of war on images of women.
Looking for Simone
LOOKING FOR SIMONE dissects the origins and relevance of this bible of feminism, charting de Beauvoir’s fact-finding journey across the US to research her book. This documentary is not a hagiography, nor is it just a look back; it’s a conversation with the present. Featuring reflections from today’s leading feminist thinkers – Judith Butler and […]
CP Concordia Launches its Winter Program
Our Winter 2026 program title combines two latin expressions (carpe diem and deus ex machina) to convey the meaning “seize the machine.”
Thirteen Docs from Restart, Now On Demand
Cinema Politica is proud to present a selection of Restart’s films, with thirteen essential works spanning from satires on electoral politics (Vedran Senjanović and Dejan Oblak’s UNITED FRONT OF OPPORTUNISTS) to invigorating protest docs (Igor Bezinovíc’s THE BLOCKADE) to poetic meditations on lost local cinemas (Ivan Ramljak’s ISLANDS OF FORGOTTEN CINEMAS).
Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising
In 1974, a group of young Anishinaabe activists took over Anicinabe Park in Kenora, Ontario, demanding justice, land rights, and an end to systemic racism in Canada. Their 39-day occupation — led by Louie Cameron and the Ojibway Warriors Society — would become one of the most defining and misunderstood moments of the Red Power […]
All That’s Left of You
A deeply moving, multigenerational drama, ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU follows a Palestinian teenager who getsswept into a protest in the Occupied West Bank and experiences a moment of violence that rocks his family. Thefilm unfolds as his mother recounts the political and emotional threads that led to that fateful moment. Spanningseven decades, the film […]
To Kill a War Machine
Documentary about the activist group Palestine Action. Through real-time bodycam and phone footage, frontline activists take audiences along on their audacious raids to tear down arms factories around the UK. Since 2020, direct action group Palestine Action have documented their operations to dismantle the companies and infrastructure supplying weapons to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. […]
Three Powerful Docs Showcasing Community Healthcare
From Honduras to New York, this trio of docs captures three community-lead movements to create healthcare access for neglected populations.
The Real Dirt On Farmer John
Filmmaker Taggart Siegel captures two turbulent decades in the life of John Peterson, an Illinois farmer who not only tends the land but also delves into writing and performance art. A man who would as soon work the fields in a feather boa as in a pair of jeans, Peterson rises out of the bankruptcy and […]