Monica Gutierrez on Canada’s debt
#ComfortableTruth: Migrants owe Canada for the opportunity to be here. Check out Monica Gutierrez’s reflections and video response here.
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 […]
There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace
THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE THIS PLACE, ANYPLACE looks at the transformation of a much-loved Toronto landmark, the Honest Ed’s block, through the stories of its community members who are forced to relocate when it is sold to a developer. Honest Ed’s, a discount store that opened in 1948 and served the neighbourhood’s working class families, […]
Submit Your Politically-Engaged Films to Cinema Politica!
Cinema Politica is collecting submissions for politically-engaged films to screen in our network!
Queer Content for Pride Month on CP VOD
We highlight three amazing films to watch online during pride month.
Ariel Nasr’s THE MOSQUE: A COMMUNITY’S STRUGGLE
As we commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Quebec City mosque shooting, we can turn to documentary film as a powerful medium of remembrance and dialogue. THE MOSQUE: A COMMUNITY’S STRUGGLE by filmmaker Ariel Nasr offers a vital glimpse at the resilience of a Muslim community in Ste-Foy, Québec in the aftermath of January 29th, 2017 when […]
Colonialism & Indigenous Resistance on Film
A Playlist of films in Support of the Wet’suwet’en protests.
Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada
February 14, 2021 – February 21, 2021 Cinema Politica is thrilled to launch our hand-picked program Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada, co-curated with Ella Cooper and Henri Pardo. From fiction to experimental to documentary, and everything between, this collection of shorts combines creative flair with political potency and unwavering voice. This […]
First Peoples, First Screens Program Shows in Ontario this Fall
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This Fall Cinema Politica Ontario, in partnership with the Ontario Arts Council, is proud to present six in person Ontario screening events featuring works from our program First Peoples, First Screens (2nd Edition).
Report Back on OSER RÊVER DE JUSTICE
A successful QC tour of Migrant Dreams. Status for All! Justice for Migrant Workers!
Midnight Traveler
When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee the country with his wife and two young daughters. Capturing the family’s uncertain journey firsthand, Fazili documents their harrowing trek across numerous borders revealing the danger and uncertainty facing refugees seeking asylum juxtaposed with the unbreakable love shared […]
DEAR JACKIE Premieres in Montreal on June 17
Cinema Politica Distribution and Catbird Productions are thrilled to announce the theatrical premiere of DEAR JACKIE, Henri Pardo’s debut feature documentary to open in Montreal theatres on Friday, June 17.
No Easy Walk to Freedom
In 2001, the Naz Foundation, an HIV/AIDS non-governmental organization in Delhi, filed a petition against section 377, an 1861 British colonial law that criminalizes “carnal intercourse against the order of nature.” In 2009, the Delhi High Court struck down section 377 in a precedent-setting ruling celebrated by activists, human rights and legal experts worldwide. Citing […]
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.
Nations and Migrations
November 28, 2016 – May 31, 2017 Working with the curatorial guideposts of mobility, origins, community and belonging, Cinema Politica has selected a program of independent film and videos that highlight issues of nationhood and migration from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Canada is one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse places on […]
Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
We stand in defiance of oppressive and violent systems and institutions founded on centuries-long histories of slavery and genocide and the vile legacy of white supremacy and colonialism …
