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 […]
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, […]
Cinema Politica St. John’s Presents: FAIRY CREEK
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 […]
Love in a Time of Fentanyl
Cinema Politica UCalgary – A Fidai Film
Cinema Politica Vienna – A Fidai Film
Our Bodies are Your Battlefield
Three Powerful Docs Showcasing Community Healthcare
From Honduras to New York, this trio of docs captures three community-lead movements to create healthcare access for neglected populations.
Cinema Politica x Vessel Contemporary – 17 Dec
A Fidai Film
20 Years, 20 Films: Commemorating Two Decades of Screening Truth to Power at Cinema Politica
Cinema Politica initially hatched at Montreal’s Concordia University in 2003, filling a lacuna in the world of contemporary film exhibition. Between the barrage of multiplexes and selective programming of repertory cinemas, there was a noted absence of bold political documentaries in the ecosystem. Over the following years, Cinema Politica launched a mission to refute neoliberal […]
Rat Film
Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. RAT FILM is a feature-length documentary that uses the rat—as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill them—to explore the history of Baltimore. “There’s never been a rat problem in Baltimore, it’s […]
