City Portrait Movies

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

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

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...

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

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...

This is Brussels, the capital of Europe, a city of concrete cages wrapped in glass, planned by businessmen and politicians, set in motion by...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hua and Ayon, two chinese cousins, are secretly falling in love. Everything goes well, until the day Ayon gets a ticket to...

What happens when we meet in the street? Suddenly, mistakenly, intimately. Estranged, rushed, too much, too little, too late. Smiles, small talk,...

2021 was a turning point for Belarus and 6 Belarusian students - as well as for the city of Łódź, Poland, in which they found...

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

A documentary in which Marcel Hanoun examines, delimits, paces up and down and criss-crosses the town of Langres, offering the houses, walls and...

The Californian sun, which lights up the city, lights up again every evening in cinemas all over the world". Guided by these words from Blaise...

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 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...

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...

A young girl guides through the city of Ulm.

Sylvia Kristel – Paris is a portrait of Sylvia Kristel , best known for her role in the 1970’s erotic cult classic Emmanuelle, as well as...

Deserted Streets of Amsterdam