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Bringing people together to foster a critical cinema culture. We are Calgary’s year-round champion of challenging and under-represented global cinema.

Curated screenings of artistically significant, historically relevant, and newly rediscovered films in Mohkinstsis. Our eclectic programming features selected films that expand Calgary’s movie-going options to include benchmark retrospectives, classic restorations, masterworks, and acclaimed screen rarities. We curate programs constructed around thematic links, historical or current movements, and

06/02/2026

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance is a masterpiece of ground-level, blow-by-blow documentary filmmaking.

Join us for the final film in Cinema of Resistance.

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

05/31/2026

Winner of more than a dozen international awards and the first documentary to take home Best Canadian Feature at TIFF, this is essential viewing and a powerful reminder of the ongoing fight for Indigenous sovereignty.

We're screening it Thursday at the Globe! Don't miss it.

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

05/30/2026

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/
πŸ“…: June 4 @ 7 PM
πŸ“: Globe Cinema

05/29/2026

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/
πŸ“…: June 4 @ 7 PM
πŸ“: Globe Cinema

05/27/2026

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/
πŸ“…: May 28 @ 7 PM
πŸ“: Globe Cinema

05/26/2026

"Remember, we are at war against colonialism," - Battle of Algiers.

Playing this week at the Globe!

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

05/24/2026

"One of the most influential political films in history....Gillo Pontecorvo's tour de force has astonishing relevance today." - Criterion

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

05/23/2026

An incredible filmmaking achievement, with a beloved score by Ennio Morricone, Battle of Algiers is often ranked among the greatest films of all time, and has influenced real world guerilla movements, been studied by counterinsurgency agencies, and influenced future filmmakers such as Paul Thomas Anderson’s recent Best Picture winner One Battle After Another.

Catch it at the Globe on Thursday!

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

05/22/2026

UP NEXT.....

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/
πŸ“…: May 28@ 7 PM
πŸ“: Globe Cinema

05/20/2026

Set in near-future New York, ten years after the β€œsocial-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.

Born in Flames is a radical, messy, and fiercely independent vision of resistance and it’s up next in our Cinema of Resistance Series. See you tmr!!

✊ : Born in Flames (1983)
🎟️: www.showpass.com/born-in-flames-1983
πŸ“…: May 21 @ 7 PM
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