Award-winning cinematographer Kirsten Johnson’s Cameraperson (2016) delivers a unique and evocative memoir concerning the complicated relationship between filmmaker and subjects, as well as the implications of the very act of filming. Compiled from a decades-long career backlog of footage, the…
This week’s Cinema Politica screening featured Kim Webby’s 2015 documentary The Price of Peace, which follows the aftermath of 2007 anti-terrorism raids in Te Urewera, New Zealand. The film’s central figure, Tuhōe activist Tame Iti, is one of four arrested…
Cinema Politica’s first ever doc/fiction double bill took place on Monday, with the Montreal premier of Nneka Onuorah’s 2015 documentary The Same Difference, followed by Dee Rees’s critically-acclaimed Pariah from 2011. This special screening was part of Black History Month…
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s documentary Angry Inuk (2016) had its Montreal premiere Saturday in a co-presentation between RIDM and Cinema Politica. The highly anticipated film—which has already won awards at Hot Docs and imagineNATIVE—sheds important light on anti-seal hunting campaigns and the…