Movies: Urban life

In October 1995, Forbach witnessed one of the most violent strikes in the history of contemporary France. A thousand or so miners took to the streets for a merciless struggle against a reform in their rights. Twenty years after the mines shut down, p...

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

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

The relationship between the city and a car, through a dialogue where a common reality and "making a city" are disputed and revealed....

Amidst the crisis in the Porto Alegre real estate market, a college student, struggling with a recent break up and her upcoming graduation, start looking for a new apartment to live in, only to find herself victim of an urban curse that follows peopl...

At the heart of the Central Train Station in Tel Aviv stands a grand piano. It watches over the traffic moving to and from the docks, seemingly hearing and seeing everything from its own point of view. For some, the piano is a regular stop on their c...

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

Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began making Super8 films in New York that stripped away the stylistic markers of Hollywood, New Wave cinema of the 1960s ...

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

This documentary is a portrait of Point St. Charles, one of Montreal’s notoriously bleak neighbourhoods. Many of the residents are English-speaking and of Irish origin; many of them are also on welfare. Considered to be one of the toughest districts ...

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Wildlife tries to survive within a concrete landscape. A filthy fox limps....

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Just a stone’s throw from downtown Montreal is the largest social housing complex in Quebec. Built in 1959 where the red-light district used to be, Les Habitations Jeanne-Mance have retained something of the area’s seedy reputation for poverty, prost...

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