City Portrait Movies

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

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...

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...

A compilation of excerpts from old Helsinki-themed documentaries and new material.

A surreal musical exploring the problems of the multicultural residents in a Notting Hill boarding house.

Veteran Inspector Méndez investigates the death of a woman found on a tourist beach.

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...

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...

A portrait of a street corner in flux.

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

A City Runs Through the Festival is an anatomy of the Festival through the eyes of its own audience.

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

A Swedish documentary about Vällingby.

This time, in “Atlantida”, Puertas wanders through stories based on memories he keeps from his hometown, Póvoa de Varzim,...

At the end of the 80's, the city of Itacuruba, in the backlands of Pernambuco, was transferred to another locality due to the construction of a...

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...

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

Vilnius is a city of notable historical heritage and unique character currently undergoing considerable changes. Some of the life fragments our...

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