Urban Life Movies

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...

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...

Back when urbanization was a new phenomenon, this film captured the aspirations desired by three young men from North Sumatera of Batak ethnicity. As...

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

Fantasy A, autistic Seattle rapper, suffers trials and tribulations from total creeps as he attempts to become a superstar. Along the way he also...

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

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...

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,...

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

The young couple Han-gyeol and Go-woon are staying in a Sauna with their son Woo-rim. One day, Woo-rim gets badly hurt and to save hospital bills,...

Alex is a shy, antisocial young man who finds a refuge from his daily routine at the subway. During his wanderings, he meets Sofia, a woman who seems...

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...

Yannick Bellon's documentary paints a portrait of a city torn between the problem of unsanitary housing, pollution corroding walls and statues, and...

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...

Five stories about dignity in the capital of Peru. A local leader looking for someone to leave the post of her complex work, a tourist guide who is a...

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

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

The story of Moroccan rapper Said "Jelouta". Once a notorious gang leader in the streets of Rabat, his life took a definitive turn in 2009 while...