Through the eyes of the people
Cinema Politica’s Oct. 4 screening, The Suffering Grasses, is an educative and insightful film that reveals the social and political circumstances that Syrian civilians face on a day-to-day basis.
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Movement, memory and mobilization
Touching upon themes of movement, memory and mobilization, The Concordian has your guide to this year’s most controversial documentaries.
Freedom to squat
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.
The view from up close
Documentaries are generally about reducing distances between the viewer and subject(s). A well-made doc will be able to…
What makes the man a woman?
Concordia has, over the past couple of years, been slowly adapting their policies to the needs of the…
So what’s up, docs?
The 1980s may be remembered for Madonna, Tom Petty and Phil Collins—or are those the the Superbowl halftime…
Sweet dreams are made of this
While the “rags to riches through hard work” narrative may anchor capitalist ethos, it lacks the glamour we…
How the Cold War was almost reignited
Back in 2007, the Bush administration was trying to install a anti-missile radar system at a military base…
Living in dangerous territory
For the last 44 years, Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Arab East Jerusalem have lived…
Politics, rage, paranoia in the 1970s
British filmmaker Peter Watkins was preparing to leave the United States in 1970, after spending months writing a…