Urban Life Movies

Relaxing in the park, haunted by the tower, city, and modern world, hallucinated by the internet.

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

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

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

Bewildered, Carlos awakens from a nightmare stalked by Death. The dream has a foreboding message, which is not entirely clear to him. Carlos decides...

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...

When love has turned cold and the best dish served cold is done with passion. A new killer is in town strangling those who seem to be connected in...

A photographer awaits competition results while he wanders around Hong Kong across space and time, pondering his own relationship with love and death.

An urban symphony about all the evils that affect contemporary societies.

When Tomoko finds some messages for a 'Mr Smith' on a lost mobile phone, she finds herself on an 'Alice in Wonderland' journey through Tokyo's...

Anna wastes her day in her apartment as she waits to see her boyfriend later. A short mumblecore drama about clinging to connection.

"Kara", in an attempt to extinguish the fire that burns him and to flee from drugs and his own frustration, sets out on a train journey. On his trip...

Life in These Days is a documentary short film exploring the changing reality of childhood in modern cities. As urban spaces become increasingly...

The construction of the Obelisco in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Two strangers develop an unexpected relationship after a chance meeting at a party. Inspired by David Ives' 'Sure Thing'.

A celebration of one of Britain's great civic squares. A ceaseless flow of buses and people crisscross the beating heart of the city.