Urban Movies

Stations of the Elevated exposes viewers to an underground art scene- that is, one found exclusively on the sides of subways and train cars. A moving...

Through a collage of spaces and times, the interventions and interferences of nature and human beings in the south of Brazil reveals themselves... or...

In the turbulence of Auckland, Ska (Hunter) is a streetwise 19 year old, whose father is a drunkard and whose older sister works at a high-class...

In the eyes of a foreigner practically any street of Mexico City’s Centro Histórico holds potential for a film. Life on the street...

In this rotoscope animation, Tom Waits sings about "The One That Got Away."

Three separate stories create a gripping yet compassionate portrait of small-town characters immersed in the intimidating, alluring, and dangerous...

The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the...

After breaking out from jail and being rescued by an enigmatic driver, Maria begins a journey through Mexico City's nocturnal life

Several days in the lives, and profiles of, the owners and players of the open air street chess tables in downtown San Francisco. An informative and...

A musical documentary accompaniment to the 1994 benefit compilation album concerning AIDS in the African-American community.

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.

Based on the Chilean "Riot Dog" Negro Matapacos. A stray dog meets young protester María. Together they radicalize until María has to...

Whether political, sociological or social questions. In one's own life and that of others. Living, eating, loving. In art and philosophy. Everywhere...

A neighborhood divided by gang violence that may prove impossible to heal unless the killing stops in this tense drama.

And urban planner's journey to making the impossible possible.

Narrated by Queen Latifah, this documentary follows Elsie, a black Labrador mix, and her struggled to raise her puppies on the streets of Los Angeles.

The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a...