Cinema Politica screening | Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance
Join us for a free Cinema Politica Groningen documentary screening about a bold chronicle of LGBTQ2S+ activism in Canada, PARADE celebrates a lesser known history that helped launch a national movement for queer rights and equality.
About the Film
Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance is a vibrant archival documentary that honours the spirit of queer protest through the lens of community celebration, cultural resistance, and radical joy. Drawing from decades of footage, the film brings to life the dynamic energy of LGBTQ+ parades as spaces of defiance, love, and identity-building.
At its heart, this documentary uplifts stories often left out of dominant queer histories, focusing particularly on the contributions of Indigenous, racialized, and trans activists. In one powerful moment, an Indigenous drag performer struts down the center of a street parade in a shimmering gold gown, embodying the pride and resilience that pulse through the film.
Through archival images, banners, music, and movement, Parade documents how bodies in motion can challenge systems of power while forging community across generations. The film reminds us that celebration and resistance are not opposites but intimately linked and that love can be a revolutionary act.
Directed with care and reverence, Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance is more than a film; it’s a collective memory, stitched together from acts of joy and protest. It invites viewers to reflect on the political power of public visibility and communal expression.
All of our documentaries are in English or include English subtitles. Our screenings are free and open to all. After each film, we host a lively discussion with experts from the Faculty of Arts and outside, followed by Q&A for audience questions.
About Cinema Politica:
Cinema Politica is a non-profit media arts organization dedicated to supporting the work of independent, political filmmakers. CP is headquartered in Canada with local chapters that organise screenings all around the world. The Faculty of Arts is proud to host the Cinema Politica Groningen chapter.
Cinema Politica offers films on a wide variety of themes: Human rights, politics, globalisation, art, activism, refugee/migrants, war/conflict, social movements and many more.
Here at the Faculty of Arts, we will choose titles that have a relation to the research being done at our faculty in particular. All of the documentaries are in English or include English subtitles. Our screenings are free and open to all. After each film, we host a lively discussion with experts from the Faculty of Arts and beyond, followed by Q&A for audience questions.
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Interested in teaming up with one of our next political documentary screenings? We love to collaborate with experts and community members from the area. Send an email to: cinemapolitica@rug.nl
