Mio on the Shore
Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work at the public bath, but it is scheduled to be demolished to make way for redevelopment.
The Kamagasaki Cauldron War
Kamagasaki is an "invisible" slum of Osaka that attracts day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. When the local gang has its treasured cauldron stolen, a war to find it begins involving the thugs, a 12 years old kid, a prostitute and a pickpocket, including the giant cauldron used to feed the destitute: The symbol of Kamagasaki.
Rolling Marbles
Shibuya in Tokyo, a city that continues to change due to redevelopment. At a house in the corner of Shibuya, Ai dreaming of a model, Mizuho working for the editorial department of a magazine, and musician Erika live together. This story is about the modest cohabitation of the three.
A City Reborn
Coventry prepares to rise from the ashes of WWII in this docu-drama written by Dylan Thomas.
Pollock
The pollock drying site where Yeong Hwa works and the apartment construction site where his son Seok Hun works are bustling. As the protagonist learns of the disappearance of Jin-chul, the son of her colleague Ok-soon, she becomes increasingly suspicious of her son Seok Hun the more she tries to help Ok-soon.
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Charley in New Town
Meet Charley, your jovial cartoon guide to Britain’s changing towns and cities.
When the Water Stops Flowing
Jonathan Stavleu explores, in a stream-of-consciousness video essay, the relationship people have with water and what happens when access to it is taken away. For this work, he examines anecdotal histories he has heard from Estonians, as well as stories from his own family history in the Netherlands, weaving them together into a journal-like narrative.
Four Degrees West
Contemporary life in Plymouth in the 1960s – plus some history.
Reconstruction of Hill Street Birmingham
An engineering feat: Second city civil engineers complete a new bridge to carry traffic over New Street's tangled railway intersections.
The Egret River
Among the tall buildings of the city, the lonely security guard David hides a beautiful field that no one knows, and meets an egret there; but the expansion of the city never stops. One day, the field is destroyed, the egret disappears without a trace, and David begins to see mysterious illusions…
Zipper: Coney Island's Last Wild Ride
When his rented lot is snatched up by an opportunistic real estate mogul, Eddie Miranda and his Coney Island ride the Zipper become casualties of a power struggle between the developer and the City of New York over the future of the world-famous destination.