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Cinema Politica Versions

Still from Portrait of Resistance

Launched in 2012, Cinema Politica has teamed up with professional translators and language students to offer French and English versions of single-language films and videos, facilitating greater exposure of and access to art works made in one of Canada’s two official languages.

CODED BIAS discussion with Shalini Kantayya

Still from Coded Bias

Cinema Politica Concordia co-hosted a discussion with CODED BIAS director Shalini Kantayya about racial and gender discrimination that is coded into algorithmic technology …

Fluid Frames from the Palestinian Diaspora

March 19, 2021 – March 24, 2021 Fluid Frames from the Palestinian Diaspora showcases work from Palestinian filmmakers based in the country known as Canada, featuring filmmakers Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy, Razan Alsalah, Serene Husni, Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, and Rehab Nazzal. This program of provocative films visualizes displacement while exploring the paradox of simultaneously being temporary and permanent as a refugee, the distress […]

Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local

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Taylor Chain I tells the gritty realities of a seven-week strike at a small Indiana chain factory during 1973-74. Volatile union meetings and tension-filled interactions on the picket line provide an inside view of the tensions and conflicts inherent to labor negotiations. Due to a lack of funds and a fire at Kartemquin which necessitated […]

Israel vs Israel

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One grandmother, one rabbi, one anarchist and one ex-soldier – four Israelis trying to put an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. The documentary Israel vs Israel is a film about Jewish peace activists who in both words and actions take a stand again 40 years of occupation and illegal settlements. This […]

Black History Month Collection

This special collection, curated for Black History Month 2020, speaks to issues of civil rights, labour activism, Black fatherhood, and QTPOC life. BLACK MEN LOVING is a series of intimate portraits of Black fathers in Toronto, challenging stereotypes of Black men in the media. THE LITTLE BLACK SCHOOL HOUSE unearths the little known story of […]

No Visible Trauma

Godfred Addai-Nyamekye

In the midst of a global uprising against police violence and systemic racism, No Visible Trauma / Above the Law examines a deeply troubled police department and reveals the devastating consequences of unchecked police brutality. Despite its relatively low crime rates, recent years have seen the Calgary Police Service shoot and kill more people than officers in […]

Merata: How Mum Decolonized the Screen

Still from MERATA: HOW MUM DECOLONIZED THE SCREEN

I never saw my mum as a filmmaker, nor was she ever an activist in my eyes. She was always a loving mum. And as the youngest of her six kids, that was the only side of her that I really knew. There was a lot about her 68 years of life I didn’t know, […]

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

Still from the Worlds Of Ursula K. Le Guin

Best known for groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy works such as A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin defiantly held her ground on the margin of “respectable” literature until the sheer excellence of her work, at long last, forced the mainstream to embrace fantastic literature. Her […]

ADOPT-A-DOC

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In 2010 Cinema Politica initiated a program to support independent Canadian documentaries during the production stage, and before broadcasters and/or financiers have “come on board.” In other words, we started Adopt-a-doc to offer our support to independent films struggling to get made in the very tough climate of documentary in Canada. Click on the film pages below to learn about each project.

COVER/AGE

Still from COVER/AGE

COVER/AGE examines the lack of healthcare access for undocumented immigrants in California, and how two undocumented individuals are advocating to fight this exclusion. One protagonist is Emma, an elderly Pilipina caregiver, who has spent over a decade providing care for others. Over the course of the film, we see Emma get ready early in the […]

5 Broken Cameras

Still from 5 Broken Cameras

An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, […]

Local Spotlight: CP Mombasa

Local Spotlight: Cinema Politica Mombasa

“We believe that this local event provides a space for the transformative power of film to meet with the voices of our community, inspiring not only ideas but action.”