Urban Life Movies

After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.

A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.

A young woman wanders through the city in search of Johannes Gutenberg. According to what she has been told, he is a printer who can be found near...

Three inseparable childhood friends are just out of college. Nothing comes between them - until they each fall in love, and their wildly different...

A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his...

This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who...

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

Bern, 1979: a tower block called Tscharnergut. Together with a few friends (among them famous Swiss actor Stefan Kurt), director Aron Nick's father...

Amidst the crisis in the Porto Alegre real estate market, a college student, struggling with a recent break up and her upcoming graduation, start...

Soon after her wedding, newlywed Duyen's excitement begins to fade as she realizes her young husband is not only naive but overly occupied by his job...

Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In...

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...

Porcupine evokes the fragmented tale of a young man who breaks into an empty hospital to set up his online broadcast of poses and provocations; his...

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

The collection of urban strange stories

Fragments of an endless night, Robert and Teresa meet and get to know each other, and get separate by the force of oppression and the threat of death...

Daryl Johnson a young man trying to stay in college and Burt Marshall a young man just released from jail work together at a Barbershop but clash...

Naeem, a Bangladeshi migrant worker employed as a street sweeper, initially feels fearful and keeps his distance from the locals. However, his...

Bern, 1980: A caleidoscopic portrait of Swiss urban life in the early 1980s.