Urban Life Movies

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 mad serial killer is spreading terror throughout the 'hood, slitting people's throats and causing mass hysteria. A group of friends decides it's up...

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

Sundance award-winning director Julia Kwan’s documentary Everything Will Be captures the subtle nuances of a culturally diverse...

A photographer awaits competition results while he wanders around Hong Kong across space and time, pondering his own relationship with love and death.

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

A migrant working-class couple, after losing their daughter to an ill-fated destiny, seeks friends in each other.

Determined to hold on to their moniker of "the Mural Kings," world-renowned artists Tats Cru produce a wall painting for Harlem's Graffiti Hall of...

What chance does a young hustler from Anchorage, Alaska have after a long prison sentence that feeds him back to the same violent street life?

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

Scraping by in a thankless job and suffering from chronic insomnia, lonely twentysomething Sierra turns to the online world of ASMR, where she meets...

Monica was born into the darkness of abuse and forged in trauma. Once triggered, Monica embarks on a journey using her manipulative personality -...

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

Fantasy A, autistic Seattle rapper, suffers trials and tribulations from total creeps as he attempts to become a superstar. Along the way he also...

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...

Tokyo. Kazu and Tatsu are two salary men in their thirties. One night, after work, they get drunk and decide to tell each other their deepest secrets...

A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.

Back when urbanization was a new phenomenon, this film captured the aspirations desired by three young men from North Sumatera of Batak ethnicity. As...

FENEEN is a journey into Senegal's urban music scene. This project was born from the meeting of Italian producer Frank Sativa with Senegalese...