Urban Life Movies

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...

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

A rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his...

A student finds out he is late for his train.

Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began...

The construction of the Obelisco in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

A 17-year-old kid from South Chicago coexists with his selfish foster mother. On his way to school with his best friend, they discover something that...

"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...

Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer profiles the young people of Villaways Park, a housing project on brink of historic change.

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

The story of Moroccan rapper Said "Jelouta". Once a notorious gang leader in the streets of Rabat, his life took a definitive turn in 2009 while...

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

Every day, Catherine feeds and cares for the pigeons in Place Beaubourg, under the curious gaze of the passersby.

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

A documentary that focuses on two young male inhabitants of Recife (statistically, the fourth worst city in the world to live in) who have both...

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...