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 […]
CP Publishing
From time to time Cinema Politica publishes pamphlets, booklets, and more recently, a real, physical, bonafide BOOK.
Photo Booth
In this split-screen opera-documentary aboutboycott activism, two Palestinian brothers plot withnovelist Jean Genet in Jericho to sabotage the 2021Eurovision Song Contest. Their method? Secure thecollaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto’s famousnaked gay singing penguins. PHOTO BOOTH weaves togetherdiverse doc, opera, and video art scenes, blendinghumour and song to explore the politics of boycott,staged in a […]
Reason
Those who witnessed the scientific spirit fostered by the Enlightenment would scarcely have believed that over 400 years later, Faith would still have an upper hand over Reason. Today as technologically advanced nations debate the merits of Creationism and Evolution, the developing world falls prey to blind faith and religious war. Everywhere privatization, the destruction […]
A Passionate and Collaborative Spirit: Remembering CP Board Member and Friend Pepita Ferrari (1952-2018)
Cinema Politica is deeply saddened by the loss of a good friend, colleague and Board Member Pepita Ferrari, who passed away on December 30th, 2018 at her home in Lac Brome.
The Kuchus of Uganda
Particularly inspiring in light of changes in the law that happened after this film was made, this is a documentary about SMUG (Sexual Minorities Uganda), a group of radical LGBT activists who risk their lives in order to push for queer rights. Piehl follows this brave group as they try to reason with medical academics […]
A Red Girl’s Reasoning
After the Canadian legal system fails to serve justice for the survivor of a brutal, racially-driven sexual assault, an Indigenous woman becomes a motorcycle-riding, ass-kicking vigilante who takes on the attackers of other women who’ve suffered the same fate. A RED GIRL’S REASONING is a no-holds-barred, neo-noir thriller featuring a formidable female vigilante who seeks […]
Territories
A giant in the world of documentary photography, Larry Towell has garnered several top-level honors, including the 2005 Priz Nadar and the first Henri Cartier-Bresson Award. This program follows Towell as he uses his camera to confront foreboding landscapes and shed light on struggling communities—drawing parallels between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the militarization of the […]
First Peoples First Screens at the Cinema / Activism / Education Conference
NOVA
A teenager’s first taste of independence is thwarted when an in-app purchase is refused. The reason? Her first basic income payment has been withheld. Alone in the woods, she is forced to launch Nova, her personalized AI tutor. Nova seizes the opportunity; whatever it takes, she is determined to get her human to finally complete […]
Umoyo
The documentary film Umoyo (Life) follows three Canadian teens on a journey to Africa to stay with young Zambian women at the Umoyo School for Girls. In the film, the girls explore issues of sexual power and the feminization of AIDS. In Zambia, a teenage girl is five times more likely to be HIV-positive than […]
Gritos del Silencio (Silent Screams)
GRITOS DEL SILENCIO, investigates the issue of gender violence, also known as “Feminicidio”, in El Salvador. Centered around the story of Lazaro Moran, a man seeking refugee status in Canada after his wife is brutally murdered by their godson and his friend, both gang members. Lazaro, and his daughter America, share their story as the […]
Land and Hope Palestine Trilogy | Documentations in History
With profound depth and grace these three, thematically related videos tell the tragic story of Palestine and dispel many myths. Deir Yassin Remembered deals with the past by focusing on a well-documented incident of the Nakba (Catastrophe, the Palestinian term for the takeover of their land in 1948) – the destruction of the thriving community […]
Debt Trap
DEBT TRAP examines why the average Canadian is sinking deeper in hock, by looking at the stories of several individuals and families who are struggling with debt. Sobering, ironic, and enlightening, the film probes the reasons why more and more of us are struggling to keep afloat, and what needs to be done to turn […]
Vibrations from Gaza
Vibrations from Gaza offers a glimpse into the experiences of Deaf children in the colonized and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine. Born and raised under siege and frequent onslaughts these children, including Amani, Musa, Israa, and others, provide vivid accounts of their encounter of bombardment and the constant presence of drones in their sky. […]
Seven Indigenous-Centered Films for National Indigenous History Month
In honour of National Indigenous History Month this June, we’re excited to shine a light on a selection of seven critically acclaimed and award-winning Indigenous-made and Indigenous-focused films.
