City Portrait Movies

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

Sylvia Kristel – Paris is a portrait of Sylvia Kristel , best known for her role in the 1970’s erotic cult classic Emmanuelle, as well as...

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

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...

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

A young girl guides through the city of Ulm.

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

A Swedish documentary about Vällingby.

This is Brussels, the capital of Europe, a city of concrete cages wrapped in glass, planned by businessmen and politicians, set in motion by...

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

Dubbed "the most viewed epic movie about Ghent ever", this documentary/movie showcases the city of Gent, Belgium.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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