Urban Life Movies

This documentary explores the complexities of Los Angeles. Blending a highly structured montage of shots exploring the city with interviews of...

If you need it fixed – if you need it organised – if you don’t know how to do it – if you’re tired of doing it everyday...

Snowflakes at the End of the World offers a meditation on the beauty and ugliness of Montreal winter, and invites critical reflection on the...

Tokyo. Kazu and Tatsu are two salary men in their thirties. One night, after work, they get drunk and decide to tell each other their deepest secrets...

Story of six interwoven narratives in Mexico City, exploring the human condition against intermittent rain. With each encounter, the characters...

Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer profiles the young people of Villaways Park, a housing project on brink of historic change.

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

Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began...

Sanjay wants a wife who is educated but traditional. Unfortunately, all his attempts to impress the two girls of his choice fail. Later, his...

Meet Vern Harper, Urban Elder, who walks the "Red Road" in a fast-paced, urban landscape. The camera follows Vern as he leads a sweat lodge...

Revisiting the genre of the road movie in a very diaristic and personal way, the film takes us on board architect Ryue Nishizawa’s vintage Alfa...

Hong Kong marked twenty years since its hand over; halfway through the planned forty year "one country, two systems" transition. Taiwan, once...

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

Tokyo, the largest city in the world, wants to create a new urban culture. It is returning to the urban traditions and building techniques of the...

Tunnel Vision follows the hardcore graffiti bomber "Rolex", dedicated to a lost and rare discipline in the Stockholm graffiti scene – Painting...

The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of...

In October 1995, Forbach witnessed one of the most violent strikes in the history of contemporary France. A thousand or so miners took to the streets...

Cool, smart and humble to boot, Archie Maddocks presents a provocative, unflinching hour of life, love, loss and laughs with candid authenticity....