Urban Life Movies

A young woman arrives in a city for the first time. She observes the people around her and realizes that she does not belong to that world,...

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

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...

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

This short documentary follows three Indigenous women as they practice ancestral forms of worship: drumming, singing, and using sweetgrass. These...

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

Pavel is a teenager who has been just released from prison, unsuccessful in overcoming his guilt over a car accident which killed both of his...

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

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

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

Lacey Schwartz grew up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish...

Genuine connections between children and nature can revolutionize our future. But is this discovery still possible in the world's major urban...

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...

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