New in Cinema Politica Catalogue: Fall 2020 Titles
We have many fantastic new titles to discover, and while it is not the same as hosting in-person screenings, there is solace in the sense of community we can still cultivate online …
CFS – Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada
The representation of Blackness and the lives of Black people on screen has a long, dynamic and troubled history in Canada.
Queer Cinema For Palestine: Call for Submissions!
For the third year, Cinema Politica is partnering with Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP) to curate a program of solidarity-building, intersectional films.
CP Concordia Launches its Winter Program
Our Winter 2026 program title combines two latin expressions (carpe diem and deus ex machina) to convey the meaning “seize the machine.”
Call for Submissions
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.
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.
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.
A Fidai Film
Reel B75-92 shows scenes of orange-picking in Qalandia in 1957, which, according to the Hebrew description, are images of “terrorists”… They come from a collection of films and photos that were kept at the Palestine Research Centre in Beirut, until it was looted by the Israeli Army during the invasion of Southern Lebanon in 1982, […]
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.
Fairy Creek to Premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
FAIRY CREEK, the feature directorial debut by documentary filmmaker Jen Muranetz, will premiere in the US at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
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.
My Stolen Planet
Oppressed by governmental restrictions that prevent her human rights, movement and autonomy, an Iranian filmmaker is forced to emigrate “inwards” and finds freedom in recording herself dancing and singing at home as an act of resistance. Using a personal diary-style narrative, Farah Sharifi traces her birth in post-revolution Iran to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement […]
Job Opening: Programming Coordinator
Cinema Politica is seeking to hire a Programming Coordinator who will assist with the coordination of programming activities and acquisition of exhibition and distribution titles.
Silvicola Opens in Theatres March 22
Cinema Politica is proud to present SILVICOLA, the award-winning feature documentary by Jean-Philippe Marquis – opening in theatres March 22!
Foggy: Palestine Solidarity, Cinema & The Archive
Queer Cinema for Palestine How can family memories inform solidarity? How can avant-garde voices engaging the past contribute to activism today? How can private archives queer public histories? How do yesterday’s photographs become tomorrow’s pictures? FOGGY is a screening of recent short films that stage hybrid acts of montage, juxtaposition, re-enactment and dialogue, exploring the […]