Urban living

Before the war, one of Kyiv's hottest subject was one of Trump’s cronies turning a masterpiece concert hall into a shopping mall.

In the heart of Berlin, a GDR ruin is given a new lease on life and becomes a center for art, culture and community.

Acclaimed Lebanese director Simon El Habre paints a vivid portrait of Beirut post-Civil War, highlighting the impact of the 2020 port explosion.

A young woman roams through the night. On a train, she rummages through other people's luggage, seeking closeness to them in an unusual way.

A film in episodes based on the trend blog "Notes of Berlin" that sheds light on the urban madness of everyday life.

A compelling exploration of the complexities of American life, history, and society through the lens of the unique and fascinating sport drag racing.

Discover the hidden world of the former meat factory in Vienna's Sonnwendviertel through the lens of filmmaker Dariusz Kowalski.

This experimental video portrait delves into questions of homelessness, the impact of incarceration, trauma, and living on the fringes of society.

An exploration of the eerie interplay of reality and fiction in contemporary China, where cities are built on speculation and capitalist fictions.

A senistive drama that authentically and lovingly captures the lifestyle of a group of young urbanites on the brink of a quarter-life crisis.

Compassionate mumblecore-style drama about a young woman's struggles with the expectations placed on her by her partner and friends.

Joscha is on high alert. He wants to take a pill, but chance encounters with old friends keep him from swallowing it. Shot in a single t ake!

PARABETON shows in chronological sequence 17 buildings by the Italian engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) in Italy and France.

Two years before his death, the HIV-positive Baldiga reviews his life, in selected episodes.

A Delhi woman's rocky road to her own cab license.

9 LIVES portrays the fate of young people who decided at the age of 11, 12 or 13 to leave home and to live on the streets.

A political and sociological look at the transformation and gentrification of Berlin through teenage eyes.

Housing is a human right. How can we guarantee housing in the increasingly difficult real estate markets in Europe's major cities?

The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin Trilogy", which shows young people with a Turkish migration history from their own perspective.

Driven by their obsessions and fears, three Berliners lose themselves in the urban jungle.

When Jonas loses his job at a Hamburg startup he doesn’t have the heart to tell his girlfriend Katharina.

Tinder users in Berlin talk openly and honestly and about real-life encounters, both the good and the bad, with dates made using the famous dating app

Whether in Delhi, Pune, Mumbai or Kolkata, street vendors from very different backgrounds sell the country's most popular drink, masala chai.

Mark and Antonia have a long-distance relationship and are taking a joint holiday in Paris. Their last visit was a long while back. How will it go?

This student film about the power of chance was lost for years and only rediscovered by chance.

A sequence of everyday-scenarios develops in synchronisation across what seems like a regular night in the city.

The anonymous Berlin concrete building "Excelsior" is only a temporary stop for its residents, yet some have been living there for more than 50 years.

A film about the absurdities of being a mom today.

A year in the life of an ordinary street in Berlin. With narration by Clemens Schick and music by Till Merten.

In one of Jerusalems oldest tattoo studio Jews, Christians, Muslims and atheists get their tattoos done.

A sales rep find himself stranded in an abstract space and time loop. Trapped in a non-place, between urban misunderstandings and Google Street View.

An epic documentary panorama about a journey through the United States.

A monument for one of New Yorks most singular theater enthusiast.

They are everywhere and yet often invisible: homeless people are often ignored. Visibility is also a social indicator.

Teenaged sex worker Paul finds refuge with a stranger.

Hobo Beate lives with her disabled child in a tent. One day, law enforcement turns their lives upside down. And so the journey begins.

A newbie filmmaker from Hamburg arrives in Berlin, convinced that he'll make it big. Instead, he ends up shooting an 'adult' art movie!

Berlin, summer 2016: Nola, Katja and Martina live near Hauptbahnhof. Time is running out - they are going to lose their flat. "What now?" they ask.

There are only 50 metres between the Fröbel School and the Model School - but the pupils are separated by worlds.

Portrait of action artist, environmental activist, natural philosopher, gallery owner and "anarchist" Ben Wagin.

Essayistic film about the Camorra clan that has been dominating the city of Naples for centuries.

Award-winning investigative documentary combines live action and animation to show the struggle against unscrupulous realtors.

Ralf is crazy and scary. But he's also funny and disgusting. A portrait of an exuberant individual – who's too intense for his surroundings.

A tour of 1990s’ Berlin, capturing the unique vibe of the club culture and art scene at a very special time in history.

This documentary captures a summer in Berlin and opens a window to the unique and complex park cosmos and its feeling of freedom.

Nico Sommer brilliantly blurs boundaries between fiction and documentary in this story of a 21 year old man looking to lose his virginity.

This turbulent comedy from Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg is a round dance of relationships, dreams and coincidences.

With a mixture of horror and comedy, this morality tale tells the story of a group of urban nomads fleeing from demolition excavators.

Berlin-based independent filmmaker Eva Heldmann interviews five people who cannot pay their electricity bills.

The Hasenheide in Berlin is a inner-city park that plays home to a colorful mix of urban dwellers: from people walking their dogs to drug dealers.

Currently, Berlin is experiencing the highest growth rate of tourism in the world, a situation not everyone is happy about.

A glass van with a mounted camera drives through the streets of Beirut and explores the city from behind the glass.

These self-assured ladies have everything under control, but in a world dominated by high tech communications and competition even they get the blues.

ZOE perfectly encapsulated the lives of drifters in Berlin at the turn of the millennium.

The lives of Paula, Louise, Max, Randolf and Donnie are getting out of hand.

Join real legends of the Berlin graffiti underground culture on a trip through the city.

A documentary set in Berlin about people who do things nighttime.

An urban garden and trendy club on the rooftop parking lot of a Neukölln shopping center: Klunkerkranich.

This sharply observed psychodrama follows an accountant plagued by panic attacks and self-pity who maneuvers himself into an existential impasse.

After a night out dancing, Leyla collides with Paul at a construction site because he insists on the validity of the road traffic regulations.

LIKE A SUMMER SONATA consists of four parts named after the classical structure of a sonata. In timeless black and white, it's a surreal, modern-day morality ...

The nameless protagonist in Jannik Tesch's drama RELEASE feels trapped in an endless spiral of work and consumption.

Cinematographer Michael Schindegger finally meets the neighbors in his own apartment building at Nr. 7 on a street in Vienna's second district.

A rhythmic, subjective short documentary by Maren-Kea Freese about life in a West Berlin boho studio apartment in the 1980's.

In the Berlin-Kreuzberg microcosm, respect, betrayal and a suitcase full of money provoke great existentialist gestures - including trauma or death.

A short film by Berlin-based film icon Michael Brynntrup full of photographs collected from personal profiles in gay chat rooms on the internet.

A funny and complex examination of the psychotherapy boom.