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 […]
My Prairie Home
In this feature documentary-musical by Chelsea McMullan, indie singer Rae Spoon takes us on a playful, meditative and at times melancholic journey. Set against majestic images of the infinite expanses of the Canadian Prairies, the film features Spoon crooning about their queer and musical coming of age. Interviews, performances and music sequences reveal Spoon’s inspiring […]
The Corporation
Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, The Corporation explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal « person » to the logical conclusion, the film puts the […]
Treat Me Like Your Mother
This photographic documentary uncovers the intimate experiences of four trans women from Lebanon, recounting tales spanning from pioneering Lebanese state-funded gender-affirming surgery in 1997 to vanished safe spaces today. Together, Em Abed, Jamal Abdo, Antonella, and Mama Jad present an untold history to the backdrop of what is arguably the first photographic archive of trans […]
Call for Programmers
Do you love political cinema, especially documentaries? Cinema Politica is looking for enthusiastic and informed film programmers to join our Programming Committee!
The Sense of Violence
The film traces the trajectory of cinema by uncovering the specific intersections shared within the historical context of “anti-communist art” during the Park Chung-hee regime (1970s~1970s). In particular, the censorship of anti-communist film imagery by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency symbolically reveals the presence of power and ideology in the space between image and reality […]
Sabren
“Sabren” is a Sudanese short film by Eythar Gubara, which focuses on the struggles of Sudanese revolutionaries after the October 2021 coup and was filmed before the devastating war began in 2023. It translates to “patience” in Sudanese Arabic and showcases the resilience and artistic spirit of a generation of youth fighting for a democratic […]