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Fairy Creek Wins Best Canadian Feature at Planet in Focus

FAIRY CREEK, the feature directorial debut by Jen Muranetz, will have its World Premiere at Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival on October 17.

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Truxx

A short manifesto of collective resistance to police oppression in the wake of the historic 1977 raid on the Montreal gay bar Truxx.

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Silvicola Begins its Vancouver Island Tour

SILVICOLA returns to Vancouver Island for seven special events from October 5 to October 11 with the director and local guests in attendance. The film tour is organized in collaboration with and co-sponsored by Sierra Club BC.

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Singing Back The Buffalo Opens In Theatres Across Canada

SINGING BACK THE BUFFALO, the new feature length documentary from award-winning Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard, opens in select theatres across Canada!

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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.

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Cinema Politica brings social justice programming from around the world into your home and on to your devices. Our roster features the work of fierce filmmakers whose stories confront and challenge the status quo.

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CP 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.

Cinema Politica exhibits, distributes, and streams independent political films. We believe in the power of art to not only entertain but to engage, inform, inspire, and provoke social change.

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Our Films

DAYS OF MADNES

Damian Nenadić · 2018 · 1h14m

DAYS OF MADNES

Damian Nenadić · 2018 · 1h14m

Days of Madness is a documentary that unveils the hidden, stigmatized world of those labeled "mentally different," challenging societal rejection and mental health stigma.

Artist on Vacation

Sandra Bastašić & Damian Nenadić · 2015 · 30m

Artist on Vacation

Sandra Bastašić & Damian Nenadić · 2015 · 30m

What happens when 11 world-renowned avant-garde artists are invited to a luxurious resort in the Adriatic where they can do nothing but rest?

All Still Orbit

Dane Komljen & James Lattimer · 2016 · 23m

All Still Orbit

Dane Komljen & James Lattimer · 2016 · 23m

“All Still Orbit” links together two apparently unrelated moments in the construction of Brasília: a dream by an Italian saint used to justify its creation and a small city built

United Front of Opportunists

Vedran Senjanović Senjanović & Dejan Oblak · 2016 · 44m

United Front of Opportunists

Vedran Senjanović Senjanović & Dejan Oblak · 2016 · 44m

"United Front of Opportunists" follows the candidacy of the eponymous political party in Croatian parliamentary election

Chronicle of a Crisis

Simon Larochelle · 2024 · 1h9m

Chronicle of a Crisis

Simon Larochelle · 2024 · 1h9m

Montrealers face a housing crisis, and this quietly effective film personalizes the issue by documenting the director's family's struggle against displacement tactics.

Fairy Creek

Jen Muranetz · 2024 · 1h25m

Fairy Creek

Jen Muranetz · 2024 · 1h25m

A gripping immersion into the frontlines of the historic Fairy Creek blockade, where thousands of activists participate in a do-or-die protest to save the pristine Ada’itsx Valley.