Indigenous Futures: Celebrating Indigenous History Month
To celebrate Indigenous History Month, Cinema Politica curated a program of movies combatting colonial narratives and embracing Indigenous knowledge.
Cinema Politica Presents Queer Cinema For Palestine
Cinema Politica is delighted to co-present the latest edition of Queer Cinema For Palestine: a program of short films at the intersection of queerness and Palestinian resistance. This eclectic slate of titles includes everything from hand-drawn avant-garde works to internet archive collages.
Queer Cinema for Palestine 2025
No Pride in Genocide (June 2025) Queer Cinema for Palestine began as an alternative ethical space for filmmakers who pulled or refused to show their work in the Israeli government-sponsored TLVFest LGBTQ Film Festival. Over the past six years, hundreds of filmmakers have shown their solidarity in response to the boycott call from queer and […]
Fairy Creek Opens In Theatres Across Canada
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.
U.S. Go Home: Critiquing American Imperialism
As another Memorial Day rolls around, it’s crucial to oppose the valorization of America’s warmongering enterprise. Cinema Politica offers three movies
Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance
Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance is a vibrant archival documentary that honours the spirit of queer protest through the lens of community celebration, cultural resistance, and radical joy. Drawing from decades of footage, the film brings to life the dynamic energy of LGBTQ+ parades as spaces of defiance, love, and identity-building. At its […]
Earth Day 2025: The Politics of Ecology
As Earth Day arrives, we’ve curated a pertinent eco-trio of two new acquisitions (Tamo Campos’ THE KLABONA KEEPERS and Cyrus Sutton’s ISLAND EARTH) and one featured classic (Keri Pickett’s FIRST DAUGHTER AND THE BLACK SNAKE).
Celebrating Women’s History Month
Across three continents, this month’s International Women’s Day titles (Deepa Dhanraj’s INVOKING JUSTICE, Tamara Dawit’s FINDING SALLY, and Sylvia Hamilton’s CARRIE M. BEST: CHAMPION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS) illuminate three distinct struggles for women’s autonomy against white supremacist, misogynist, and authoritarian structures.
Audience Choice Awards 2024 Winners
We’re delighted to announce that the winners of our annual Audience Choice Award are Abdallah Al-Khatib’s LITTLE PALESTINE, DIARY OF A SIEGE (Best Feature Film) and Rehab Nazzal’s VIBRATIONS FROM GAZA (Best Short Film).
Invoking Justice
In Southern India, family disputes are settled by Jamaats—all male bodies which apply Islamic Sharia law to cases without allowing women to be present, even to defend themselves. Recognizing this fundamental inequity, a group of women in 2004 established a women’s Jamaat, which soon became a network of 12,000 members spread over 12 districts. Despite […]
CP is Hiring a Network Operations Coordinator
Cinema Politica (CP) is seeking to hire a Network Operations Coordinator who will recruit and support the work of local chapters, coordinate network-wide events, campaigns and activities, and assist with related day-to-day operations.
CP Concordia Launches its Winter Program
If there was ever a time to fight for what is right, including against those on the right, it is now. With the gilded ascent of trolls, neo-fascists and the broligarchy, the world is on a political precipice.
The Palestine Exception
As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel–the “Palestine exception”–are shattered. This film features professors and students as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the […]
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 […]
No Other Land
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families – the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses […]
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.