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Urban Development

Explore the world through the lens of our built environment with films discussing how urban planning, architecture, and habitats shape our social dynamics.

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Shipwrecked America
A portrait of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, revealing how displacement and destruction were used as an opportunity for neoliberal initiatives, drastically intensifying the city’s economic, social and racial inequalities.
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 52 min.
Year of production: 2016
Cathedrals of Culture
"If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" This 3D film project about the soul of buildings allows six iconic and very different buildings to speak for themselves.
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 6 x 26 min.
Year of production: 2014
Coast Modern
Traveling along the Pacific North West coastline from LA to Vancouver, the film showcases the pioneers of West Coast Modernist Architecture, and the homes that have become their legacies.
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 55 min.
Year of production: 2012
Aalto: Architect of Emotions
A love story of Alvar and Aino Aalto, Finnish masters of modern architecture and design, an enchanting journey to their creations and influence around the world.
Director: Virpi Suutari
Language: English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Swedish (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 99 / 52 min.
Year of production: 2020
DHARAVI Slum for sale
Dharavi, India's biggest slum is to be demolish and its profitable real estate turned into billions of Dollars. The film follows the struggle of the underprivileged to defend their homes and livelihoods against mounting globalization.
Language: Hindi (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 52/79 min.
Year of production: 2010
Fallen City
As the survivors emerge from China’s worst natural disaster in decades, they speak for today’s Chinese generation thrust into the nation’s relentless pursuit of progress.
Director: Zhao Qi
Language: Chinese (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 90/63 min.
Year of production: 2012
My Barefoot Friend
Shallim is a rickshaw puller, an ordinary man with an old and tired rickshaw. He runs endless miles with it each day to allow him to support his family.
Language: Hindi (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 82/52 min.
Year of production: 2010
Land Grabbing
Mark Twain once said, "Buy land, they're not making it anymore." With the world’s farmland is at risk, this aphorism has become a matter of urgency
Director: Kurt Langbein
Language: English, German, Romanian (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 91 min.
Year of production: 2015
I Love Venice
I LOVE VENICE tells the story of the people still living in the most beautiful city in the world, amidst the 30 million tourists who visit each year. What is it like to live in a city that is not yours anymore?
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 71 min.
Year of production: 2013
Little People Big Dreams
Behind the curtains of the most unlikely kingdom on earth. This is China's Dwarves Empires, where little people stand tall. Or do they?
Director: Mak Ck
Language: Chinese (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 89 min.
Year of production: 2014
Soviet Bus Stops
Architecture, like everything else during the Soviet period, was under strict centralized supervision. While art and grand monuments were expected to advance the state narrative of communism as paradise on earth, sometimes the benign bus stops were overlooked
Language: English, Estonian, Lithuanian, Russian, Ukrainian (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 68 min.
Year of production: 2022