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.
Trick Bag
Gang members, Vietnam vets, and young factory workers from Chicago’s neighborhoods tell of their personal experience with racism: who gets hurt and who profits. The film was brought to Kartemquin by Peter Kuttner, and credits are shared between Kartemquin, Rising Up Angry, and Columbia College Chicago. Original 16mm print restored in 2011 thanks to a […]
Four Palestinian Films Available to Stream for Free
Cinema Politica has assembled a collection of films on Palestine: documentary and narrative works alike, each representing the indomitable spirit of Palestinian resistance.
Dragged
DRAGGED explores the wonderfully weird world of Montreal drag. The project focuses on the lack of female-bodied visibility in the mainstream portrayal of drag, namely RuPaul’s Drag Race. It consists of 10 interviews with a diverse cross-section of this community in Montreal. The film premiered on August 30th, 2019 in Montreal also in collaboration with […]
Cinema Politica Acquires THIS STAINED DAWN for Distribution
Cinema Politica acquires up THIS STAINED DAWN – Anam Abbas standout feature directorial-debut that follows Karachi’s feminist movement in preparation for the Pakistan’s multi-city Aurat March.
2012 / Through the Heart
2012/ Through the Heart draws us into the intensity of the 2012 Quebec student strike protests and riots. While we are confronted with the brutality of the police, the film reminds us of the power of this historic event which shook up the political and media world in Quebec. Artist Safia Nolin lends her voice […]
The Ride Ahead
THE RIDE AHEAD is the feature-length version of the Emmy Award-winning New York Times Op-Doc, MyDisability Roadmap.After graduating high school Samuel Habib, who has serious health, communication, and mobility challenges, feels ‘stuck’ and falling behind his peers. He wants to go to college, make new friends, date, move out of his parents’ home. “But no […]
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.
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 […]
Green Laser
In June 2011, John Greyson joined a freedom flotilla trying to sail to Gaza to break Israel’s blockade. Green Laser weaves together interviews and documentary footage with Hornet lore, Riverdance moves and rewritten clips from Exodus (featuring a shirtless Paul Newman) to explore questions of solidarity, civil disobedience, queer activism and the growing boycott movement. Followed by a film never before shown legally […]
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.
Winnie Wright, Age 11
Winnie, the daughter of a steel worker and a teacher lives in Gage Park, a Chicago neighborhood that is changing from white to black. Her family struggles with racism, inflation and a threatened strike, as Winnie learns what it means to grow up white, working class, and female. The film was created by Kartemquin collective […]
Labour, Art and Activism
The newly-released Magnus Isacsson Collection features a selection of key works and classics from this important Canadian director touching on topics of labour, art, and activism.
Kettle
“Kettling” is a police tactic used to control large crowds during protests. Officers surround the crowd from all sides, pushing them together into a smaller area. In many cases an individual’s only means of exiting the kettle is through arrest. Set against the backdrop of the Toronto G20 in 2010—where the largest mass arrest in […]
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, […]
