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CINEMA POLITICA ON THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT

Our Co-Founder and Executive Director Svetla Turnin will be travelling to some of the most exciting documentary festivals and markets this fall. She'll be actively participating in the market at DOK Leipzig (Oct. 25-28), IDFA Forum (Nov. 15-19), and RIDM Face-à-Face (Nov. 23-25) over the next month! If you’d like to book a meeting or just say hi, feel free to reach out to her directly at svetla@cinemapolitica.org.

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CP Concordia Launches its Fall Program

our Fall 2026 program, have risen to the challenge. Collective agency courses through the creative veins of our newest offering of political documentary. These films highlight fruitful collaborations between media makers, labour organizers, eco-activists, and Indigenous decolonizers, as well as between revolutionaries and artists, filmmakers and protagonists.

Spare My Bones, Coyote!

A volunteer group search the US-Mexico desert for dead migrants' bodies in this powerful and revealing exposé on the violence of border enforcement.

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New titles 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.

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Local Spotlight: Celebrating CP Groningen

Cinema Politica is celebrating the extraordinary commitment of one of our most prolific locals: Cinema Politica Groningen. Based at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, this local holds a special place in our hearts. It was initiated by Dan Leberg, a former Programming Coordinator at CP , who brought together a fantastic team of co-facilitators dedicated to connecting political documentary with their community.

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Call for Submissions

Cinema Politica is accepting submissions of critical and urgent political films. We don’t charge submissions fees and our network reaches all across Canada and abroad, offering your film the chance to connect with a diverse range of audiences and activists.

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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.

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Your Home For Independent Political Cinema

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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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.

CP Network

The Cinema Politica Network is made up of film exhibition sites and local member chapters across Canada and around the world.

CP Distribution

With an ever-growing collection of firebrand films in our catalogue, CP Distribution brings provocative films to cinemas, institutions and communities.