Urban Movies

Children who refuse to live with their families or give up on the streets work at a bar or steal money. When you don't have money, you'd rather...

Tarquin's life has spiraled out of control, a well bred public school educated man. Having nothing going for him except his own guilt, regret and...

Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the...

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...

Made on a wind-up Bolex camera, The Sound of Seeing announced the arrival of 21-year-old filmmaker Tony Williams. Based around a painter and a...

Mixing new images to existing São Paulo movies takes, the documentary presents the city from the perspective of five main attributes:...

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

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...

BIRD IN THE SKY is a gritty, poetic tale of a young man’s spiritual struggle on the streets of New York City. Rob has been given a second...

Clare has only her dog to keep her company. Her life isn't going so well. This morning, it's about to get much worse.

Start Options Exit follows the exploits of twenty-somethings Neville Carlisle and Yolis Jenkem, street punks who have come to a freeing conclusion;...

Through intimate stories and day-to-day routines we get a naturalistic glimpse into the lives of individuals with disabilities in the bustling urban...

Papa, a bullied young boy whose only refuge is a book about space, runs away after being involved in the accident of one of his harassers. His escape...

Based on a True Story, we journey back to 1980 to see John King, a 10yr old African American boy, see his mother experience the Joy of Salvation,...

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

Waiting for his big dream (a film role) to come true, Pablo works as a training actor in a patient-care programme at a medical faculty and a paid...

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

A flashback to the early life of the narrator/ protagonist 'Tanuk' (Juvenile) shows life in the Magnolia projects in New Orleans. He bears witness to...

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