Land and Memory: From Gitksan Nation to Eastern Anatolia
Our On Demand titles this month feature two stories of displacement, settlement and generational memory in Nettie Wild’s BLOCKADE and Hale Güzin Kızılaslan’s THE RETURN.
Browse Our Latests Educational Catalogue
We are unveiling Cinema Politica’s 2022-2023 Educational Catalogue! This stunning 135 title catalogue includes films covering an impressive breadth of topics, subjects, and academic disciplines.
(T)error
After working for more than 20 years as a counterterrorism informant for the FBI, Saeed “Shariff” Torres has a choice to make. He can stay home to raise his son or do one last high-stakes job for the Bureau. Infiltrating terror networks and befriending suspected terrorists is Torres’s specialty. He is one of a growing number […]
Recording: DISCOUNT WORKERS Directors + Guests
Discussion with the directors of DISCOUNT WORKERS, and grassroots organizers in labour and migrant justice in Montreal.
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.
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.
Cinema Politica co-presents screening as part of Queer Cinema for Palestine
Cinema Politica is proud to co-present the QUEER FOR PALESTINE program as part of the inaugural Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP) festival. QCP runs from 11-20 November and is hosting more than a dozen events across five continents, both online and in person.
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.
Cinema Politica Launches Documentary Futurism – The Podcast
CP is thrilled to launch a new audio series that gives listeners a unique insight into the dynamic and engaged filmmaking process behind The Next 150—Documentary Futurism projects.
Unsettling 150
Two Canadian-based film organizations—VTape and Cinema Politica—are joining together to offer a program of films and video that challenge, disrupt and unsettle dominant narratives that have storied Canada on the occasion of the state’s sesquicentennial celebrations. The films are available for free streaming across the country for the duration of the “Canada Day” weekend (June 30-July 2).
Cinema Politica Versions
Launched in 2012, Cinema Politica has teamed up with professional translators and language students to offer French and English versions of single-language films and videos, facilitating greater exposure of and access to art works made in one of Canada’s two official languages.
ArtDox
While documentary is in itself an art form, often called “informational art,” documentaries that focus on other art forms or artists working in various art milieus are uniquely positioned as works that examine art via art. In recent years many such “art docs” have been produced in Canada, yet these films and videos remain mostly […]
Online Premiere of Phillip Pike’s OUR DANCE OF REVOLUTION
Cinema Politica is proud to present an exclusive online premiere of OUR DANCE OF REVOLUTION by director Phillip Pike, essential viewing on queer Black history and organizing in Canada.
Twyla Roscovich: A Dedicated Activist and Filmmaker Whose Legacy Will Last Lifetimes
Cinema Politica’s Ezra Winton remembers a friend and ally.
Ethiopia Then and Now – Tamara Dawit and Special Guests
Join us for a live-stream conversation with director Tamara Dawit (FINDING SALLY), Elleni Centime Zeleke (Columbia University) and Rebecca Fisseha (Daughters of Silence), and Hannah Giorgis (The Atlantic).
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.