Urbanism Movies

This short film explores the problems and potentials of small towns in the Drumheller Valley region of Alberta. Citizen participation in the growth...

Just a stone’s throw from downtown Montreal is the largest social housing complex in Quebec. Built in 1959 where the red-light district used to...

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective...

Canada is facing a housing crisis, and cooperative housing might be a part of the solution.

Exploration of the territory in a delirious time-space journey through the largest Megalopolis in America.

“A Short History of the Highrise” is an interactive documentary that explores the 2,500-year global history of vertical living and issues...

A silent journey through the mysterious, dark heart of the city center.

This feature documentary zooms in on the city of Sapporo, on the Island of Hokkaïdo in southern Japan. In contrast to the unplanned sprawl of...

A young architect embarks on an ambitious real state development project in Brasília, convinced that he could actually help transform...

The war zone of a dystopian multiplayer shooting game is used to embark some urban explorers on a winter walk, avoiding the combats whenever...

Bridgeview, British Columbia is less than 30 kilometres from downtown Vancouver. The residents were promised a sewer system in 1953, but more than 20...

This film focusses on the approaches that several cities have taken to one problem. Through various examples, it examines the implications and...

World in a City is a portrait of Toronto and the steps Torontonians are taking to create a society that welcomes and encourages new immigrants to...

Following a commission from the College of Architects of Seville, for the production of a documentary about the La Alameda de Hércules area of...

Legault is an aging man who lived in a rural cabin, now a suburban cabin, as developments have popped up around him.

This feature documentary takes a look at how the Halifax/Dartmouth community in Nova Scotia was stimulated by a week-long session held by a panel of...

Valérie Jouve is a weel-known photographer, and Grand Littoral is her first film. Out the outskirts of Marseille, in a landscape criss-crossed...