Urban Life Movies

Bern, 1980: A caleidoscopic portrait of Swiss urban life in the early 1980s.

Wildlife tries to survive within a concrete landscape. A filthy fox limps.

Marlene arrives in Berlin to begin a new life. She meets her upstairs neighbour Flo, seemingly a nice guy and starts a new job as a restorer. She...

When Tomoko finds some messages for a 'Mr Smith' on a lost mobile phone, she finds herself on an 'Alice in Wonderland' journey through Tokyo's...

This documentary is a portrait of Point St. Charles, one of Montreal’s notoriously bleak neighbourhoods. Many of the residents are...

The film is about terrible life of a common man

The construction of the Obelisco in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Baselstrasse is a street in Lucerne. People call it "Rue de Blamage" – it's a noisy street tucked into a narrow space between a hill and a...

Anthology of urban stories form seven Italian directors.

FENEEN is a journey into Senegal's urban music scene. This project was born from the meeting of Italian producer Frank Sativa with Senegalese...

An authored film by Margaret Drabble about the rise of the suburbs and the failure of city planning.

Just a stone’s throw from downtown Montreal is the largest social housing complex in Quebec. Built in 1959 where the red-light district used to...

Bewildered, Carlos awakens from a nightmare stalked by Death. The dream has a foreboding message, which is not entirely clear to him. Carlos decides...

An urban symphony about all the evils that affect contemporary societies.

A coming-of-age story ignites when teenager Josh Sendler has to pack up his hoop dreams and move from the lush cornfields of Indiana to the harsh...

A migrant working-class couple, after losing their daughter to an ill-fated destiny, seeks friends in each other.

The relationship between the city and a car, through a dialogue where a common reality and "making a city" are disputed and revealed.