City Portrait Movies

Twenty years after September 11, 2001, ‘Country No. 1’ takes us on a journey back to the fall of 2001, when the official history had not...

A boy from Vila do Conde records a love letter on a cassette. His voice blends with music, archive images and stories from the past, some lived and...

Nadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a thesis on Proust; she also likes to...

Veteran Inspector Méndez investigates the death of a woman found on a tourist beach.

Is the city of Zurich suffering from ‘density stress’? What is it like to live in mega cities such as São Paulo, Mexico City and...

Documentary film that takes a visual and anthropological journey through man's spirit across the thin line dividing excessive faith in religious...

A boat trip in the Helsinki archipelago: images of water, light and people on the cruise. The same people are met in the city in different...

A surreal musical exploring the problems of the multicultural residents in a Notting Hill boarding house.

A City Runs Through the Festival is an anatomy of the Festival through the eyes of its own audience.

Arne Bivrin’s great passion is bird photography. He steps into a fairytale world, capturing images that leave people in awe—moments that...

2021 was a turning point for Belarus and 6 Belarusian students - as well as for the city of Łódź, Poland, in which they found...

British sad sack Gary is a failed entrepreneur who has just arrived in Beijing's stylish Sanlitun district, allegedly to start a business. There are...

Vilnius is a city of notable historical heritage and unique character currently undergoing considerable changes. Some of the life fragments our...

A portrait of a street corner in flux.

What happens when we meet in the street? Suddenly, mistakenly, intimately. Estranged, rushed, too much, too little, too late. Smiles, small talk,...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hua and Ayon, two chinese cousins, are secretly falling in love. Everything goes well, until the day Ayon gets a ticket to...

KCBT explores the shifting urban landscape and rapid economic growth of Hanoi, Vietnam through stenciled demolition ads that both visibly mark the...

Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall...