Toronto Stories is a feature film comprised of the four stories that a nameless boy witnesses in the course of a single day on the city streets of Toronto — and how, in the end, each of those stories comes to be connected.

Jia Zhangke’s film shot in the old village of Fengjie, a small town on the Yangtze River which is slowly being destroyed by the building of the Three Gorges Dam.

Ron Fricke’s film filmed using time-lapse photography in order to capture the great pulse of humanity as it flocks and swarms in daily activity.

Fernando Meirelles’s film depicts the growth of organized crime in the Rio de Janeiro suburb of Cidade de Deus.

Spike Lee’s with issues of racial conflict in the multi-ethnic community of Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, during the hottest day of the summer

This classic German documentary is a valentine to the “new” Berlin of the late 1920s, enjoying a renaissance after the dregs of the Depression.

Vertov’s feature film, produced by the Ukrainian film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in Odessa and other Soviet cities.

“Radiant City”

A look at 21st century “suburban sprawl”