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.
Vote For The 2024 Audience Choice Award
The time has come, once again, to vote for the winner of the Cinema Politica Audience Choice Award.
The Kartemquin Collection
It all started in 1966 with a camera, a verite film, Home for Life, and three friends (Stan Karter, Jerry Temaner, and Gordon Quinn) coming together and deciding to take a risk to “try to make something happen.” And make something happen they did. The collective they formed has been home to over 200 filmmakers who […]
Chronicle of a Crisis
Sarah and Simon, a couple of young millennials are facing the repossession of their apartment in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis in the province of Quebec. They decide to turn the camera on themselves to document their daily life during their challenging search for a new affordable place to live in. Filmed in […]
Cinema Politica Concordia Launches its Fall Program in Montreal
Fierce filmmaking, committed storytellers and bottom-up resistance strike a diverse chord across tales from Hawai’i, Iran, France, Palestine, the USA and here in Quebec.
Fairy Creek Wins Best Canadian Feature at Planet in Focus
FAIRY CREEK, the feature directorial debut by Jen Muranetz, will have its World Premiere at Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival on October 17.
Fairy Creek
The Fairy Creek (Ada’itsx) valley sprawls across Pacheedaht First Nation territory on southwestern Vancouver Island and its old growth forest ecosystem thrives with lush foliage, ancient tree trunks, and a variety of wildlife. However, the decimating chainsaws and tractor machinery of the Teal Jones lumber corporation disrupt this equilibrium as they demolish an environmental haven […]