Urban Life Movies

A group of teenagers, three cleaning staff, and a young married couple confront a social contract when they meet in the elevator queue of a...

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...

A metro driver with colorful hair is unexpectedly chosen as the face of a public transport advertising campaign, blurring the lines between the...

While her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends Ngoc, a club waitress who has just moved in as a tenant in their family home....

A sophisticated and beautifully constructed account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s. The film raises complex issues about...

To cure their insomnia, a social outcast befriends an ASMR streamer where the lines between friendship and obsession become blurred.

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...

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,...

50 % of the world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2050 this will increase to 80%. Life in a mega city is both enchanting and problematic....

Monica was born into the darkness of abuse and forged in trauma. Once triggered, Monica embarks on a journey using her manipulative personality -...

After a brutal robbery, a Shopkeeper sets out to get back what was stolen from him: his pride. Featuring a unique blend of fiction and reality.

A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.

Kassovitz revisits the story of his cult film by adapting it for the stage and highlights the film's eminently contemporary nature. Recorded in...

Young members of 3 New Orleans school marching bands grow up in America's most musical city, and one of its most dangerous. Their band directors get...

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

Determined to hold on to their moniker of "the Mural Kings," world-renowned artists Tats Cru produce a wall painting for Harlem's Graffiti Hall of...

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

A husband who tries to protect their pregnancy, but is lost in communication.

Sundance award-winning director Julia Kwan’s documentary Everything Will Be captures the subtle nuances of a culturally diverse...