Razeh-del
In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film. Using citations and image intervention, Razeh-del journeys through parallel histories of war on images of women.
Black History Month: Celebrating Black Legacies
To celebrate Black History Month, Cinema Politica is spotlighting three empowering docs, each covering a distinct, Black-led protest movement from North American history.
Looking for Simone
LOOKING FOR SIMONE dissects the origins and relevance of this bible of feminism, charting de Beauvoir’s fact-finding journey across the US to research her book. This documentary is not a hagiography, nor is it just a look back; it’s a conversation with the present. Featuring reflections from today’s leading feminist thinkers – Judith Butler and […]
Thirteen Docs from Restart, Now On Demand
Cinema Politica is proud to present a selection of Restart’s films, with thirteen essential works spanning from satires on electoral politics (Vedran Senjanović and Dejan Oblak’s UNITED FRONT OF OPPORTUNISTS) to invigorating protest docs (Igor Bezinovíc’s THE BLOCKADE) to poetic meditations on lost local cinemas (Ivan Ramljak’s ISLANDS OF FORGOTTEN CINEMAS).
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.”
Unclickable
A former tech executive gathers a team of software developers in the basement of an undisclosed location. They set out to build a digital advertising fraud operation. Within 12 weeks, they defraud a large number of high-profile advertisers, including the Trump campaign and a series of pro-Biden organizations during the 2020 US Presidential election. As […]
All That’s Left of You
A deeply moving, multigenerational drama, ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU follows a Palestinian teenager who getsswept into a protest in the Occupied West Bank and experiences a moment of violence that rocks his family. Thefilm unfolds as his mother recounts the political and emotional threads that led to that fateful moment. Spanningseven decades, the film […]
Cinema Politica St. John’s Presents: FAIRY CREEK
Reel Injun
Reel Injun is a documentary about cinema through the perspectives of the people who appeared in itsvery first flickering images and have survived to this day to tell their own stories with their own cameras.Diamond meets with Clint Eastwood (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, Unforgiven) at hisstudios in Burbank, […]
To Kill a War Machine
Documentary about the activist group Palestine Action. Through real-time bodycam and phone footage, frontline activists take audiences along on their audacious raids to tear down arms factories around the UK. Since 2020, direct action group Palestine Action have documented their operations to dismantle the companies and infrastructure supplying weapons to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. […]
Essential new films for local screenings
A curated selection of essential new political documentaries available for local screenings through Cinema Politica, addressing resistance, justice, and social change worldwide.
Cinema Politica qathet – A Fidai Film
Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising
In 1974, a group of young Anishinaabe activists took over Anicinabe Park in Kenora, Ontario, demanding justice, land rights, and an end to systemic racism in Canada. Their 39-day occupation — led by Louie Cameron and the Ojibway Warriors Society — would become one of the most defining and misunderstood moments of the Red Power […]
