Urban Movies

One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of Tomorrow challenges conventional...

Rotterdam 2040 is a film about the city’s future, departing from the principle of Gyz La Rivière that you can’t look ahead without...

In this rotoscope animation, Tom Waits sings about "The One That Got Away."

This short documentary shows how a city's water supply is purified at a filtration plant. The complex system of the underground mains that supply all...

In the eyes of a foreigner practically any street of Mexico City’s Centro Histórico holds potential for a film. Life on the street...

Xiao Bo arrives in Beijing, gets a job at a boutique, and is invited to stay with his lady boss, Ah Qing, and her husband, Kang. Knowing that Xiao Bo...

2 flatmates unfold the layers of their relationship on a random Sunday afternoon after they encounter a power cut.

A short student film reflecting on the reality of living in the modern urban dystopia

Clare has only her dog to keep her company. Her life isn't going so well. This morning, it's about to get much worse.

She's back - the lovable little elf who sleeps in a matchbox on the artist's desk: and of course her playmates, too, the comical mouse couple Fredrik...

Tarquin's life has spiraled out of control, a well bred public school educated man. Having nothing going for him except his own guilt, regret and...

Papa, a bullied young boy whose only refuge is a book about space, runs away after being involved in the accident of one of his harassers. His escape...

Made on a wind-up Bolex camera, The Sound of Seeing announced the arrival of 21-year-old filmmaker Tony Williams. Based around a painter and a...

A person living in Liberty City goes to work, have some food & gets back home.

A neighborhood divided by gang violence that may prove impossible to heal unless the killing stops in this tense drama.

Several days in the lives, and profiles of, the owners and players of the open air street chess tables in downtown San Francisco. An informative and...