FemDoc: Women & Documentary
September 01, 2015 – October 31, 2016 FemDoc is a provocative program of film screenings, public discussions and interpretative material that showcases works by and about women (both cis-women and trans* artists or subjects included), as well as the social, economic, cultural and political issues that affect their lives and work. Like other Cinema Politica […]
Call for Submissions 2023
If you recently completed a politically engaged film and you want it seen far and wide submit your work to Cinema Politica today! We are interested in works of any length that contribute to justice and equality movements, activism, knowledge and discourse.
Call for Submissions 2024
If you recently completed a politically engaged film and you want it seen far and wide submit your work to Cinema Politica today! We are interested in works of any length that contribute to justice and equality movements, activism, knowledge and discourse.
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 […]
Betsiamites
What does it mean to be Indigenous in today’s world? The film heads out to the North Coast of Québec to meet residents of Pessamit, an Innu community formerly named Betsiamites. In a face to face with the camera, their voice, direct and unexpected, is heard. 13 members of the community discuss their daily lives, […]
Crimes Without Honour
Every winter in a Stockholm cemetery activists gather to honour Fadime, a Turkish immigrant to Sweden murdered by her father in 2002. Internationalizing the debate over cultural traditions that accept the use of violence to control women’s behaviour in Western immigrant communities, four extraordinary activists tell their personal stories of physical and emotional violence, and […]
I Didn’t See You There
As a visibly disabled person, filmmaker Reid Davenport sets out to make a film about how he sees the world, from either his wheelchair or his two feet, without having to be seen himself. The unexpected arrival of a circus tent outside his apartment in Oakland, CA leads him to consider the history and legacy […]
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).
History Will Judge
In 2016, a peace treaty between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ended 52 years of civil war. Over four years, Canadian-Colombian filmmaker Germán Gutiérrez follows a group of guerillas from their covert existence in camps to civilian life. In HISTORY WILL JUDGE, men and women share their vision for the country, […]
Crude Gold Series: Gran Colombia Gold
Crude Gold is a series of short documentary films showcasing 5 pivotal cases of foreign-funded mining exploitation connected to Canadian investors. Every year in Colombia numerous union leaders, union activists and union members are assassinated. Similarly, human rights defenders are targeted, threatened and murdered in a fog of impunity and unanswered questions. Activists, union […]
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 […]
Turkey on the Edge
For the first time a documentary shows the radical changes in Turkey from an inner perspective and what it means to be part of the opposition. Turkish filmmaker Imre Azem accompanies four protagonists for one year in the state of emergency: Fatih Polat, journalist and editor in chief of the left-wing Newspaper Evernsel; Gül Köksal, […]
Still Recording
STILL RECORDING is a feature documentary that follows art students Saeed and Milad, who decide to leave Damascus and go to Douma, a suburb under rebel control. Over more than four years, the film depicts the two friends and their acquaintances as they go about their daily lives, capturing the transformation of the city of […]
The Crossing
THE CROSSING tells the difficult story of individuals forced into displacement and takes us along on one of the most dangerous journeys of our time with a group of Syrians fleeing war and persecution, crossing a sea, two continents and five countries, searching for a home to rekindle the greatest thing they have lost – Hope. […]
The Shadow of Gold
The Shadow of Gold is a global investigation of the ultimate talisman of wealth, beauty and power. Filmed in China, Peru, Canada, the U.S., London, Dubai, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, The Shadow of Gold reveals the impact of gold mining and the gold trade on our economy, environment and conflicts. Watch to discover […]
Diaries From Lebanon
Filmed during the maelstrom of Lebanon’s early 2020s, Myriam El Hajj’s DIARIES FROM LEBANON uses a diaristic structure to tell the story of a country plagued by legislative tyrants, state censorship, and a catastrophic ammonium nitrate explosion in Beirut. El Hajj’s deeply personal film renders the tireless attempts of the Lebanese people to restructure their […]
