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…
Looking for something to do this mid-term break (aside from catching up with your school work, of course)? Here are a few things you can check out this coming week, February 19-25, 2017. *** Basic Instinct CineClub/Film Society screening (Feb 19,…
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…
Montreal premiere of The Crossing with director and special guests inaugurates the film and speaker series on November 28 Montreal – The Cinema Politica Network is proud to announce the launch of Nations & Migrations, a special program of film…
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…
Back in 2011, the death of Mark Duggan was the trigger of a series of riots in Tottenham, his hometown, as a climactic retaliation by the black community in response to years of tension between them and the local police.…
As recent events have shown- notably the signing of the Canada-Europe Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)- national politics’ final say over the management of natural resources can sometimes leave the little guy behind for the sake of global economic…
Cinema Politica presents a screening of Jai Bhim Comrade, with director Anand Patwardhan in attendance this Saturday November 24 at 7PM in H110.