Past Events
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March 27, 2026Critical Thinkers Series: Sarah Shamash (Emily Carr University of Art + Design)
Sarah Shamash (Emily Carr University of Art + Design): Cross-solidarity cinema networks: From Pindorama to PalestineCine Kurumin, Brazil’s largest and most prestigious, Indigenous International Film Festival, is a testament to how the camera in the hands of the colonized is a tool of resistance,…
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March 16, 2026Origin @ The Cinematheque
Origin is a sprawling, ambitious exploration of racial inequality in contemporary America and its interconnection with global systems of oppression throughout history. Ava DuVernay was told that Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson’s book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, was far too…
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March 13, 2026Critical Thinkers Series: Julia Alekseyeva (University of Pennsylvania)
Julia Alekseyeva (University of Pennsylvania): Matsumoto Toshio’s Antifascist Film-PhilosophyAbstractThis talk analyzes the film and philosophy of Matsumoto Toshio, avant-garde documentary filmmaker best known for the queer, kaleidoscopic Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) and a series of "neo…
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February 27, 2026Critical Thinkers Series: Karrmen Crey (Simon Fraser University)
Karrmen Crey (Simon Fraser University) - “Producing Sovereignty: Indigenous Cinema and Media and Institutional Contexts in Canada”Indigenous cinema and media in Canada experienced a boom starting in the early 1990s, resulting in a production field that has grown exponentially ever since. Indigenous…
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February 25, 2026
Stories We Have Earned: The Stoney Nakoda Film Project and Q&A with Bill Snow
In collaboration with UBC Film Society, on Wednesday we will be having a screening of Stories We Have Earned: The Stoney Nakoda Film Project at 7pm, followed by a Q+A with Bill Snow.🎟️ This event will be free for the public to attend.🍿We will be selling concessions! Freshly made popcorn…
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January 30, 2026Critical Thinkers Series: Sunera Thobani (University of British Columbia)
Abstract: Muslims were indispensable to the founding and development of the pre-Partition popular film industry (Masud, 2008; Roy, 2015 ); this was also the case in the industry’s post-liberalization transformation into Bollywood, a global cultural behemoth (Raghavendra, 2016; Mishra, 2002)…
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January 28, 2026
Happy Holidays by Scandar Copti, including a Q&A (via Zoom) with the filmmaker
Happy Holidays tells four intersecting stories of people in contemporary Jerusalem, and premiered at 2024 Venice International Film Festival, where it won the "Orizzonti" award for Best Screenplay - before then playing at numerous festivals and winning awards at the Hamburg International Film…
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January 21, 2026
Three Promises by Yousef Srouji, Q&A with the filmmaker, @The Norm
The film involves footage from the director's personal archive, featuring primarily his mother and sibling in Palestine during the Second Intifada. Three Promises won the Harrell Award for Best Documentary at the 19th Annual Camden Film Festival.This event will be free for the public to…
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January 16, 2026Critical Thinkers Series: Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf (University of Ohio)
Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf (University of Ohio): Remnants of Refusal: Feminist Affect, National Trauma
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January 13, 2026The Battle of Algiers @ The Cinematheque
The Battle of Algiers / La battaglia di AlgeriItaly/Algeria1966Gillo Pontecorvo121min 35mm One of the great epics of revolutionary political cinema, Gillo Pontecorvo’s legendary The Battle of Algiers grippingly recreates the armed struggle for Algerian independence against France in the…