Urban Life Movies

Meet Vern Harper, Urban Elder, who walks the "Red Road" in a fast-paced, urban landscape. The camera follows Vern as he leads a sweat lodge...

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...

Apartment blocks with no future are being torn down in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Malaury Eloi-Paisley follows those lost in the city through...

A madly-in-love young couple's relationship begins to suffer when they struggle to conceive a child.

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...

You don't have to travel to faraway countries to observe wildlife, because the fauna of the big city also provides surprises every day. Contrary to...

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

Two northeastern brothers live and work as waiters in Baixada Fluminense. The duo tries to balance themselves in an underworld permeated by financial...

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...

When clairvoyant Pernille meets Journalist Daniel, who is on a mission to write an exposé about Fact & Fiction in the clairvoyant world,...

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

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

A coming-of-age story ignites when teenager Josh Sendler has to pack up his hoop dreams and move from the lush cornfields of Indiana to the harsh...

Tunnel Vision follows the hardcore graffiti bomber "Rolex", dedicated to a lost and rare discipline in the Stockholm graffiti scene – Painting...

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

This documentary explores the complexities of Los Angeles. Blending a highly structured montage of shots exploring the city with interviews of...

If you need it fixed – if you need it organised – if you don’t know how to do it – if you’re tired of doing it everyday...