Melody e la giovane sorella Lila raggiungono con gli amici Dante e Ruth il paese sperduto di Harlow, nel Texas, per dar vita a una nuova e visionaria iniziativa imprenditoriale. Ma il loro sogno si trasforma in un incubo quando senza volerlo disturbano Faccia di cuoio, il serial killer squilibrato che con la sua eredità di sangue continua a tormentare gli abitanti della zona. Tra questi c'è Sally Hardesty, l'unica sopravvissuta al tristemente famoso massacro del 1973 che è determinata a ottenere vendetta.

La città di Detroit è sconvolta da bande di drogati, di stupratori e assassini, e una società finanziaria (la COP) produce uno specialissimo robot corazzato, da lanciare di notte per le strade a tutela dei cittadini. Questo robot preme moltissimo al vice-presidente Jones, che comanda anche la polizia locale, poiché la sua produzione in serie si preannuncia come un gigantesco affare. Tuttavia, messo alla prova in pieno consiglio di amministrazione, il prototipo si inceppa e per errore uccide uno dei presenti. Morton, un dirigente furbo e rivale di Jones, propone Robocop, un robot avveniristico ed ultra protetto, nel quale viene innestato il corpo mutilato dell'agente Murphy.

Il negozio di Calvin è di nuovo in attività e questa volta gli affari vanno piuttosto bene. Ma il quartiere del negozio sta cambiando faccia sotto la guida del corrotto assessore Brown che ha stretto alleanza con la Quality Land Immobiliare, di Quentin Leroux. I piccoli commercianti sono stati riposti in secondo piano a favore di grandi centri commerciali, e il South Side di Chicago sta dimenticando le proprie radici. Le storie all'interno del negozio stanno cambiando: Jimmy è diventato il portaborse dell'assessore Brown e lo difende ingenuamente credendo che comunque i cambiamenti sono positivi.

Jimmie Fails sogna di riprendersi un giorno la casa vittoriana del nonno, costruita nel cuore di San Francisco. Con il supporto del miglior amico Mont, Jimmie cerca di integrarsi nella città che, con la sua rapida evoluzione, sembra correre più veloce di lui.

Sitting at the intersection of two main arteries of traffic on Melbournes Northside is a giant yellow rat that is pointing, with a long gnarled claw, to its explicitly large bottom. This yellow rat is the mascot for the small business Glenlyon Motors. This unusual mascot and the absence of an explanation for its existence has many residents of Melbournes north side puzzled. 'A Rats Arse' finally answers the question on every Northside residents lips - “Why?!” - and along the way reveals something about identity, values, community, and the people who exist within them.

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political and cultural figures. Made at a time when the city was experiencing unprecedented real estate development on the one hand and unforeseen displacement of population and deterioration on the other. Empire City is the story of two New Yorks. The film explores the precarious coexistence of the service-based midtown Manhattan corporate headquarters with the peripheral New York of undereducated minorities living in increasing alienation.

Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began making Super8 films in New York that stripped away the stylistic markers of Hollywood, New Wave cinema of the 1960s and ’70s, and classic avant-garde film, leaving only traces of their generic conventions. For the first hour of OK Today Tomorrow, he stages a series of fraught encounters around the city between four gentrified New Yorkers before abandoning his vague narrative of youthful angst altogether in favor of documenting the urban landscape itself. The dusk-to-dawn “city symphony” that ends the film resembles similar Super8 social studies by Vogl’s uptown contemporary John Ahearn; both recorded the daily lives of working-class black and immigrant communities on the streets of a city on the verge of the corporate takeover and sweeping gentrification that followed in the 1980s and ’90s. Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

A small bingo hall is threatened by the opening of the country's largest bingo centre nearby.

Victor, agente immobiliare, vende appartamenti di anziane signore che ha assassinato a facoltose coppie gay. Il suo obiettivo è quello di trasformare la Chueca in un lussuoso ghetto gay. Il suo piano si arresta quando incontra Antonia, una madre invadente che mette a dura prova la stabilità del rapporto tra il figlio Ray e il suo compagno. Intanto l'ispettore Mila, un'eccentrica donna con molte fobie, è sulle tracce di Victor.

Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer profiles the young people of Villaways Park, a housing project on brink of historic change.

On the tiny island of Martha's Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes threaten to destroy the islands unique character. Twelve years in the making, One Big Home follows one carpenters journey to understand the trend toward giant houses. When he feels complicit in wrecking the place he calls home, he takes off his tool belt and picks up a camera.

In 1959 New York City announced a "slum clearance plan" by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of businesses, from the Cooper Square section of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Guided by the belief that urban renewal should benefit - not displace - residents, Frances Goldin and her neighbors formed the Cooper Square Committee and launched a campaign to save the neighborhood. Over five decades they fought politicians, developers, white flight, government abandonment, blight, violence, arson, drugs, and gentrification - cyclical forces that have destroyed so many working class neighborhoods across the US. Through tenacious organizing and hundreds of community meetings, they not only held their ground but also developed a vision of community control. Fifty three years later, they established the state's first community land trust - a diverse, permanently affordable neighborhood in the heart of the "real estate capital of the world."

The baker, the pie-maker and the diminished long-term community of Hoxton Street face gentrification in this compelling portrait of a rapidly changing London.

A woman risks everything to secure a future for herself and her brother by setting out on a dangerous odyssey in Portland, in doing so confronting her own dark past over one propulsive night.

A taxi drives through the city of Berlin. Its driver is a punk, left and a well-known figure in the autonomous scene. The stations of his trip are the most important places of the autonomous scene: all in the struggle for survival. The last evictions have not yet been processed and the next ones are coming right up.

Diosdado spends his time debating with customers, particularly with his boss, who holds strong opinions about the financial aspects of the convenience store where he works.

A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Residents struggle to pay their rapidly rising rents on Wellington Street in Montreal.

A short film focusing on bawdy talk and Italian-American stereotypes of African-Americans.