City Portrait Movies

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...

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

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...

About Stefan Stricker, who calls himself Juwelia and has been running a gallery on Sanderstraße in Berlin Neukölln for many years. Every...

A collaboration between Jem Cohen with writer Luc Sante made in Tangier, Morocco, a city where neither of us had ever been. En route from the airport...

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

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...

"The theme of the film HIDDEN CITIES is personal urban perceptions, which we call 'the city'. The city, as a living organism, reflecting social...

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

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...

A documentary in which Marcel Hanoun examines, delimits, paces up and down and criss-crosses the town of Langres, offering the houses, walls and...

Lebanon today. The traces of the civil war are all too tangible as government corruption becomes unbearable. In a country where conflict and peace...

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

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 docu-art film about Kyiv and the contemporary problems of the capital. The film raises the issue of the dilapidated state of Kyiv's old buildings...

In an extended panoramic view—an "audioscopy" of Algiers—the camera’s eye scrutinizes various buildings and city-center...

Stuttgart in the mid-1930s: What did it look like in the past, what does it look like now and what will await the city in the future?

A film about "the father" of Malmö Eric Svenning and how the city has developed during his time.