Calgary Cinematheque

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance served as a key counter to the portrayal of the conflict in Canadian mass media, and the crew’s presence is thought to have partially de-escalated matters. A landmark in Indigenous filmmaking, we include Kanehsatake to remind our audience that Canada is not innocent of colonialism or oppression. We dedicate this film to the Indigenous leaders and activists of Canada who find themselves continually forced to fight for recognition of their legal rights.

✊: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993)
🎟️: www.showpass.com/kanehsatake-270-years-of-resistance-1993/
📅: June 4 @ 7 PM
📍: Globe Cinema

Our final screening in our Cinema of Resistance and we're bringing it home!

This documentary by Abenaki activist Alanis Obomsawin emerged as a real time response to the 1990 Oka Crisis in which a Mohawk protest of the expansion of a golf course onto their land was met with a police barricade and later military siege of the Mohawk reserves which lasted 78 and led to two fatalities - one on each side. Obomsawin inserted herself and her shifting crew into the crisis as it occurred, documenting events from the Mohawk side. We dedicate this film to the Indigenous leaders and activists of Canada who find themselves continually forced to fight for recognition of their legal rights.

✊: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993)
🎟️: www.showpass.com/kanehsatake-270-years-of-resistance-1993/
📅: June 4 @ 7 PM
📍: Globe Cinema

Tomorrow Cinema of Resistance continues with Battle of Algiers! Don't miss it! ✨

✊: Battle of Algiers (1966)
🎟️: www.showpass.com/the-battle-of-algiers-1966/
📅: May 28 @ 7 PM
📍: Globe Cinema

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A groundbreaking neorealist film, this acclaimed classic depicts the organization and activities of the guerilla revolutionaries of the National Liberation Front in Algeria in their battle for freedom against the French colonialist armies that attempted to suppress and destroy them. We dedicate this film to Arab populations battling against colonialist forces all across the Middle East.

✊ : Battle of Algiers (1966)
🎟️: www.showpass.com/the-battle-of-algiers-1966/
📅: May 28@ 7 PM
📍: Globe Cinema