concept

Cinelogue provides a collaborative space for film curation, global streaming, and critical dialogue by showcasing the cinema of the Global Majority (people from formerly and currently colonized geographies who make up over 80% of the world’s population).

By presenting critical independent cinema from regions and communities in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania, Cinelogue seeks and promotes local understanding and inter-regional connections between different films and their makers. In doing so, we aim to continue the legacy of many filmmakers, cultural practitioners, and thinkers from previous generations and their cinematic contributions to anti-colonial movements and solidarity building.

programming

Our film library consists of programs curated by collectives and individuals who represent diverse regional emphases within the independent film landscape, carefully selecting a select number of films around a chosen theme. Most of our programs highlight the lived experiences of those most affected by systems of social, cultural, and state oppression, such as religious and ethnic minorities, women, working class people, and people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities.

The films, discourses, and stories featured on this platform allow us to engage with complex layers of inner and outer truths tied to the larger societies, histories, collective trauma, and imagination of places.

Filmmakers and independent licensors have the option to choose the regions in which we will make their films available and/or free. This means that some films may not be available in all countries, while others may be available for free in certain regions.

We try to release a new film every week, which usually stays on the platform for 1 year.

streaming and subscription model

Cinelogue is an independent, non-profit organization that operates on a subscription model where 50% of the subscription revenue is shared with the filmmakers or independent producers and distributors who own the licenses.

By subscribing to Cinelogue, you not only gain access to a diverse, curated selection of films, but you also actively contribute to creating a collaborative and equitable ecosystem in which these filmmakers’ stories and perspectives can thrive and reach a global audience.

Institutional subscriptions are also available. To learn more about our institutional partnerships, please contact us.

why we do what we do

Our approach is guided by the continued effects of colonialism on global social, cultural and political dynamics. The hegemonic forces of imperial state power that continue to threaten the autonomy and empowerment of populations and regions over which they continue to wield much political, economic, and social power.

The widely accepted binary and hierarchical categories of ‘foreign film’ or ‘world cinema’ only serve as a continuation of colonial relations. They project the non-Western world as a homogenous space without diversity, specificity, and complexity. This results in the visual consumption of films from the Global Majority as something to be passively gazed upon rather than actively seen.