Co-op Housing: The Best Move We Ever Made

This full-length documentary from the Challenge for Change program addresses housing issues affecting Montreal in the mid-1970s. As the city is restor...

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

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

Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in the...

Caracas has been changing since the nineteenth century this is a story that tries to explain why the Venezuelan capital is complex, chaotic and fertil...

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

Alanis Obomsawin’s documentary The People of the Kattawapiskak River exposes the housing crisis faced by 1,700 Cree in Northern Ontario, a situation t...

This short documentary features a portrait of Ottawa in the mid-20th century, as the nascent Canadian capital grew with force but without direction. S...

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 be, Le...

A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.

"This film is one of the first French Unit productions of the “Société Nouvelle/Challenge for Change” program. When an old area of Montréal is to be d...

A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on the surrounding area.

Choosing hope over despair, Berliners are banding together to get their houses back from big investors. [...] This documentary film follows five Berl...

A close-up of a snow-bound city, and the men, money and machinery it takes to dig it out.