Israelism
Two young American Jews – Simone Zimmerman and Eitan – are raised to defend the state of Israel at all costs. Eitan joins the Israeli military. Simone supports Israel on ‘the other battlefield:’ America’s college campuses. When they witness Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people with their own eyes, they are horrified and heartbroken – […]
Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing
Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing (Biseau vers le haut) is an educational kit (including a DVD, subtitled in French, with special features and a bilingual Teaching Guide) created to share knowledge not found in nursing schools and teaching hospitals. It shows how registered nurses working with the BC Centre for Disease Control’s Street […]
Trace
Public accounts on the 2015 European refugee crisis covered the issue through an individualizing gaze placed on the refugee subject. The refugee in suffering, an experience witnessed by us all, as a spectacle, from the distance: Images of crowded tents, boats carrying overflowing numbers of people, children dying on Mediterranean shores. Trace turns the gaze […]
The Shirley Card
Gesturing to the racial bias behind Kodak’s mid-century skin-tone “Shirley cards,” Sonya Mwambu brings deeply textured layers of Black artistry, history and the racial politics of popular culture. Initially optimized for white skin through the 1970s, Shirley cards eventually began to be produced with a wider range of skin tones in the late 20th century. […]
Returning Home
Canada’s Residential Schools are the legacy of a world where relationships are severed in the service of power and where people become detached from one another and the complex webs of interdependence. Among the Secwépemc in British Columbia, one such story is that of Phyllis Jack-Webstad, a residential school survivor whose experiences inspired the Orange […]
Holding Back the Tide
A woman swallows a pearl. A subway car falls to the oceanfloor. A deluge bursts through the cracks of New York City.In every borough, oyster shells are pried apart and carefullyreturned to sea. A chorus of farmers, diners, sous chefs,fishmongers, activists, and landscape architects colloquializesthe oyster’s many lifecycles. These educational snapshotsabout the bivalve’s ecological role, […]
Visión Nocturna (Night Shot)
Carolina Moscoso’s VISIÓN NOCTURNA (NIGHT SHOT) is an experimental film composed out of fragments shot over years as the Chilean director reckons with the trauma of her rape. Artistic cinematography and sound composition create a visceral experience as the emotional artifacts of Moscoso’s story collide with the systemic burden of a justice system that has ultimately failed to […]
Big Fight in Little Chinatown
BIG FIGHT IN LITTLE CHINATOWN is a story of community resistance and resilience. Set against the backdrop of the COVID pandemic and an unprecedented rise in anti-Asian racism, the documentary takes us into the lives of residents, businesses and community organizers whose neighborhoods are facing active erasure. Coast to Coast the film follows Chinatown communities […]
A Hot Sandfilled Wind
A HOT SANDFILLED WIND is a 13-minute lyrical piece, based on a poem by Nadia Habib. An appeal for recognition against despair, it emphasizes that beyond the politics of occupation, Israelis and Palestinians live in proximity, side by side. Palestine Trilogy A HOT SANDFILLED WIND is one of three videos in a series titled Palestine […]
Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege
In his directorial debut, LITTLE PALESTINE, DIARY OF A SIEGE, filmmaker Abdallah Al-Khatib offers a glimpse into the daily life of the residents of Yarmouk, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world. Home to thousands of Palestinians, Yarmouk was seized in 2015 by ISIS/Daesh in alliance with al-Nousra. Syrian government forces retaliated to the […]
Analogna revolucija: Kako su feministički mediji promijenili svijet
Cinema Politica u Rojcu is presenting the film ANALOG REVOLUTION: HOW FEMINIST MEDIA CHANGED THE WORLD by director Marusya Bociurkiw on January 13th, 2025.
Black Men Loving
BLACK MEN LOVING upends the stereotypical images of Black men as violent, aggressive and hyper-sexualized, to the extent that it seems, as one father in Ella Cooper’s film says: “Black men loving is political” and “almost radical”. We are taken into the world of responsible parenting where we explore what being a father means to […]
SG̲aawaay Ḵ’uuna – TMU Film Screening and Q&A with Director Helen Haig-Brown
Invasion
In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. INVASION is a new film about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence against Indigenous people. The Unist’ot’en Camp has been a beacon of resistance for nearly […]
See You in Chechnya
1999, Georgia. A young fine-arts student in Tbilisi falls in love with a French woman he met by chance. She is a war photographer and he decides to go with her on the Chechnya front. Parachuted in the middle of the fights, he bonds with a group of reporters risking their lives to cover this […]
