City Portrait Movies

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

KCBT explores the shifting urban landscape and rapid economic growth of Hanoi, Vietnam through stenciled demolition ads that both visibly mark the...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

A young girl guides through the city of Ulm.

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 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...

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?

Deserted Streets of Amsterdam

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