cinema politica

Touching upon themes of movement, memory and mobilization, The Concordian has your guide to this year’s most controversial documentaries.

Cinema Politica’s first feature film of the semester, Squat: The City Belongs to Us, is about a Barcelona-based activist group, Miles de Viviendas (Thousands of Homes), who occupy evicted and boarded up buildings and then turn them into inspired homes.

Documentaries are generally about reducing distances between the viewer and subject(s). A well-made doc will be able to place a complete neophyte in the world…

Concordia has, over the past couple of years, been slowly adapting their policies to the needs of the transgender community. While the university has misunderstood…

The 1980s may be remembered for Madonna, Tom Petty and Phil Collins—or are those the the Superbowl halftime shows of the past decade?—but it was…

While the “rags to riches through hard work” narrative may anchor capitalist ethos, it lacks the glamour we tend to think should accompany success these…

Back in 2007, the Bush administration was trying to install a anti-missile radar system at a military base in the Czech Republic. While this issue…

For the last 44 years, Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Arab East Jerusalem have lived under severe Israeli military control and occupation.…

British filmmaker Peter Watkins was preparing to leave the United States in 1970, after spending months writing a documentary about the civil war he knew…