Cinemas of Resistance Screening Series: This Stained Dawn / Dagh Dagh Ujala

Welcome to the Cinemas of Resistance Screening Series: The Stained Dawn event at the Innis Town Hall at Innis College! Join us on March 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM (Eastern Time) for an evening of thought-provoking cinema. "The Stained Dawn", is a documentary film about the build up to the 2020 Aurat March (women’s march) in Pakistan and explores how organizers negotiate a deeply surveilled, paranoia-inducing, and often physically violent space in the hopes of a revolution. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Anam Abbas (Director), and Hiba Akbar (Aurat March Organizer), moderated by Laila Malik (Author, Archipelago).

This event is part of the Cinemas of Resistance series, which explores how film and moving images become tools of dissent, memory, and political imagination. Across different geographies and struggles, the series asks how cinema documents movements, sustains collective hope, challenges dominant narratives, and creates new forms of solidarity.

The screening is co-hosted by Cinema Politica, a non-profit media arts organization dedicated to supporting the work of independent, political filmmakers in Canada and beyond, the Tawoos initiative, a genre-fluid platform dedicated to celebrating South Asian music in all its forms, and Jamhoor, a Left media platform for South Asia and its diasporas.

We look forward to gathering in community for an evening of cinema, dialogue, and critical reflection!

Program schedule:

Doors - 6:30 PM

Screening - 7:00 PM

Panel/Q&A - 8:30 PM

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