Cinema Politica is Turning 15
Join us on September 15 as we celebrate 15 years of Screening Truth to Power with headliner Yamantaka // Sonic Titan and more!
Preempting Dissent
The creative commons documentary PREEMPTING DISSENT builds upon the book of the same name written by Greg Elmer and Andy Opel. The film is a culmination of a collaborative process of soliciting, collecting and editing video, still images, and creative commons music files from people around the world. Preempting Dissent interrogates the expansion of the so-called “Miami-Model” of […]
Stories from Standing Rock, Inside a Fascist Movement, Mauri Resistance and More in CP’s New Fall Titles
Cinema Politica’s newest batch of independent, Indigenous and hard-hitting film is coming to a local near you.
Tesfaye
TESFAYE (Hope)is a 30-minute experimental documentary film based on the extraordinary life of an Ethiopian refugee, rescued from the sea in Madagascar and now living in Canada. Shot in Ethiopia and Canada, the film recounts the life of Tesfaye – caught between a nostalgia for his home country and the possibility of a better life […]
MANIC and SHADOWS OF LIBERTY Now Available for Streaming
We’ve added MANIC and SHADOWS OF LIBERTY, two award-winning and timely films by Quebec filmmakers, to our streaming services!
Unsettling 150
Two Canadian-based film organizations—VTape and Cinema Politica—are joining together to offer a program of films and video that challenge, disrupt and unsettle dominant narratives that have storied Canada on the occasion of the state’s sesquicentennial celebrations. The films are available for free streaming across the country for the duration of the “Canada Day” weekend (June 30-July 2).
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Cinema Politica Launches New Subscription Based VOD Service
Tired of Hollywood fluff? We’ve got the rad stuff. Cinema Politica’s newest effort to stream truth to power means audiences can pay a monthly fee to access a library of online content.
ArtDox
While documentary is in itself an art form, often called “informational art,” documentaries that focus on other art forms or artists working in various art milieus are uniquely positioned as works that examine art via art. In recent years many such “art docs” have been produced in Canada, yet these films and videos remain mostly […]
FINDING SALLY ’21 SCREEN AWARD NOMINATION
Cinema Politica is proud to announce that our Distribution title FINDING SALLY has been nominated for “Best Documentary Program” for the 2021 Canadian Screen Awards.
Being Osama
Shot against the cultural backdrop of Montreal, the film follows the six Osamas from the time of the American invasion of Iraq in March of 2003 to the anti-WTO demonstrations in late July of the same year. Touching on subjects as diverse as Arab names, rock-n-roll, religion, Middle East politics, weddings, funerals and the meaning […]
CP Pandemic Playlist Vol 2: Health and Community Care
From front-line workers caring for those infected, to those working with grieving loved ones, to those providing crucial services – care has never been so urgent, nor so integral …
Violet Gave Willingly
Violet Gave Willingly immerses us in the colourful world of textile artist Deborah Dumka, inviting viewers to witness the unflinchingly intimate details of her artistic process and inner life. Nestled in a cluttered studio by the sea, we witness an artist at work on a project that delves into a past unspoken. An intimate study […]
Uprooted Generation
Part poem and part documentary, this film is dedicated to the victims of residential schools. The film includes reflections on cultural disconnection, personal and community trauma, resilience, and the healing power of art.
CP Publishing
From time to time Cinema Politica publishes pamphlets, booklets, and more recently, a real, physical, bonafide BOOK.
Breaking the Frame
BREAKING THE FRAME is a feature–length documentary portrait of the New York artist Carolee Schneemann by Canadian filmmaker Marielle Nitoslawska. A pioneer of performance and body art as well as avant-garde cinema, Schneemann has been breaking the frames of the art world for five decades, in a variety of mediums, challenging assumptions of feminism, gender, […]
