Programmation · Sur Demande Cinema Politica On Demand Films for International Women’s Day Cinema Politica Network · mars 4, 2021 From Indigenous Lenca and Garifuna resistance in Honduras and the armed vigilante Gulabi Gang fighting femicide in India, to the pharmaceutical industry's commodification of the female orgasm ... Lire la suite
Distribution · evenements speciaux Recording: Ethiopia Then and Now – Tamara Dawit and Special Guests Cinema Politica Network · mars 3, 2021 By unpacking family and national history, ETHIOPIA THEN AND NOW explored the responsibility of narrative construction in documentary film, literary writing, journalism, and historical scholarship. Lire la suite
Distribution · evenements speciaux Ethiopia Then and Now – Tamara Dawit and Special Guests Cinema Politica Network · février 10, 2021 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). Lire la suite
Sur Demande Ariel Nasr’s THE MOSQUE: A COMMUNITY’S STRUGGLE Cinema Politica Network · janvier 19, 2021 As we commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Quebec City mosque shooting, we can turn to documentary film as a powerful medium of remembrance and dialogue. THE MOSQUE: A COMMUNITY’S STRUGGLE by filmmaker Ariel Nasr offers a vital glimpse at the resilience of a Muslim community in Ste-Foy, Québec in the aftermath of January 29th, 2017 when a white man entered a mosque in Ste-Foy in the midst of evening prayers and killed six people, injuring and paralyzing others. Premiered in January 2020 in Quebec City and Montreal, Nasr’s film poses urgent questions about Islamophobia and the government’s continued denial of systemic racism in Quebec. As Quebec Premier Francois Legault continues to issue public statements denying the issue of system racism in the province, THE MOSQUE reignites essential conversation around the politicization of community trauma. Since Bill 21 and Bill 9 came into force in Quebec, the repressive nature of the Coalition Avenir du Quebec’s version of secularism (laïcité) has shown to disproportionately target Muslims, alongside Sikh and Jewish communities. The legacy of the Quebec City mosque shooting is situated within a broader picture of Islamophobia and growing streams of far-right nationalism that reach across North America. The shock of the massacre is compounded by the continued denial of the severity of organized, armed Lire la suite
Distribution · Sur Demande Land and Memory: From Gitksan Nation to Eastern Anatolia Cinema Politica Network · janvier 5, 2021 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. Lire la suite
