Izi sta per lasciare The Kitchen, una delle ultime zone di case popolari di Londra. Tuttavia, l'arrivo nella sua vita del giovane Benji lo pone di fronte a decisioni difficili.
An unnerving glimpse into the near future is experienced through Callum, a young drifter.
Set on carrying out her task with dedication, a woman is obsessed with watching over anonymous interiors and occupying them. Both a custodian of the premises and a ghostly presence, she becomes an echo of how we relate to time, solitude and the melancholy of forsaken spaces.
There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace looks at the transformation of an iconic Toronto block - where the world famous Honest Ed's store once lived - through the stories of its community members as they reconcile their history with the future, all while facing the biggest housing crisis the city has ever seen.
A petty thief takes shelter in a rundown apartment building to hide from the policeman chasing him. But none of them expects what awaits them inside. The house - or is there something hiding in it? - isn’t planning on letting anybody out alive. Cop and thief have to put aside their differences if they want to escape the house of the Gorgon.
Based on the award-nominated graphic novel by Benjamin Rivers. Dana is a woman who doesn’t deal well with confrontation. She likes her job, her friends, and the cozy comfort of her neighbourhood — Toronto’s own Queen Street West. But when the world forces her to stand up, will she be able to handle it?
The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.
The film follows a famous model and stylist Maja Atanasijević in her lonely, but intense struggle to bring back forgotten values of a city.
Varosha, the only city on the world without people, the loneliest city... Varosha is a province in Cyprus that is closed with fences and unpopulated since 1974.
A portrait of a dilapidated Olympic-sized pool in Accra, Ghana.
Deluge is a 2010 post-apocalyptic short film directed by Australian musician Lulu Collard.
An urban symphony about all the evils that affect contemporary societies.
One man's journey through depressing urban environment.
Taguchi, un giovane informatico, viene trovato morto nel suo appartamento. I suoi colleghi cerca di scoprire cosa possa aver spinto il loro amico a compiere un gesto tanto estremo. L'unica pista sembra condurre a un misterioso floppy, trovato nel computer di Taguchi, che contiene un virus pericolosissimo per chi lo utilizza. Altre numerose morti si susseguono, mentre c'è chi, collegandosi a internet, si ritrova su un misterioso sito in cui una voce gli propone di incontrare un fantasma. Gli eventi precipitano, strane presenze si manifestano in stanze sigillate con il nastro rosso, per l'umanità l'apocalisse della solitudine è ormai prossima.
Domenica non è un giorno festivo, ma il nome di una ragazzina napoletana che, durante i suoi 11 anni di vita, di feste ne ha conosciute poche. Orfana, già astuta e scafata, deve recarsi con l'ispettore Sciarra all'obitorio per riconoscere il balordo che l'ha violentata (e che nel frattempo è morto: forse suicida, forse ucciso da uno sbirro violento)...
A solitary man struggles to cultivate beauty in a desolate urban world. Lonely and dislocated, he drifts in and out of a dream state envisioning the promise of regeneration. ROSEWATER tells a story of hope sustained through perseverance, ritual and, ultimately, revelation.
Los Angeles, estate 1992, caldo torrido. Bill rimane bloccato con l'auto in un ingorgo, scende, la chiude e "va a casa" con una passeggiata di quaranta chilometri che si trasforma in un'odissea violenta. A quella di Bill fa da riscontro la vicenda parallela di un poliziotto al suo ultimo giorno di servizio: è lui che intuisce l'itinerario di sangue e violenza che Bill traccia attraverso la città. Sarà lui a fermarlo.
A due amiche viene la cattiva idea di indagare su una serie di delitti, opera di un fantomatico Candyman. Reincarnazione di uno schiavo nero, divorato da un tremendo sciame di api, basta nominare il suo nome tre volte per fare una brutta fine. Tratto da una storia di Clive Barker, un buon film horror; la musica di Philip Glass, insolita per il genere horror, avvolge in maniera inquietante il film.
The Doctor and Mel visit Paradise Towers, a residential complex that promises a peaceful life to its residents. However, the establishment is far from what its name suggests: A conflict persists among the Kangs, humanesque multicolour beings who gather in opposing gangs based on which colour of the rainbow they bear; killer cleaning robots prowl the halls, and a secret in the complex's basement poses the greatest threat of all.
"In this half-hour documentary, Producer Sandra King provides an intimate portrait of a public phenomenon: Graffiti. Over an 18 month period, King and her crew followed the teenage members of a graffiti 'crew,' Vandals on the Street, as they painted and rapped and moved through the streets of downtown Newark. What emerges is a unique glimpse behind the 'tags' at the kind of inner city kids who write on walls, but who also make art; who create out of wedlock children, but who also form binding relationships; who drop out of school and never read a book, but who create their own brand of poetry through the medium of 'rap.'