Barbara Knorpp sent a query to the Visible Evidence listserv on 10/31/2023, asking for interesting documentaries on cities of the global south to help her develop a class on the topic. This list is the responses to her query. Several responses were grouped by city. Those are at the bottom of this list.
A New Era (2019), Dir. Boris Svartzman
A Place to Live (2019), Dir. Sanjiv Shah
A Valparaiso (1963), Dir. Joris Ivens
Akher Ayyam el-Madinah/ In The Last Days of the City (hybrid) (2016), Director: Tamer El Said
All that Breathes (2022), Director: Shaunak Sen
And AKA Serial Killer (1975), Dir. Masao Adachi
Calcutta (1969), Dir. Louis Malle
Calcutta ’71 (1972), Mrinal Sen
Chandigarh: Corrections, Omissions (2013), Dir. James Price
Cidade de Deus/City of God (2022), Directors: Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund. Bráulio Mantovani
Cities of Sleep (2015), Dir. Shaunak Sen
Ciudad (2020), Dir. Carlos F. Rossini, Maya Goded, Julio Hernández Cordón, Nuria Ibáñez
Contras’ City (1968), Djibril Diop Mambéty
De Cierta Manera/One Way or Another (1977), Dir. Sara Gómez
Dollar City (2016), Dir. Amudhan R.P.
Eeb Allay Oo (2020), Dir. Prateek Vats
Forest of Bliss (1986), Director: Robert Gardner
Gangster Project (2011) Dir. Teboho Edkins
Gaza Mon Amour (fiction) (2020), Directors: Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser
Ghetto Girl (2012) Dir. Ambarine Alqadar
Humara Shahar / Bombay, Our City (1985), Dir. Anand Patwardhan
Interview (1970), Dir. Mrinal Sen
Jenin Jenin (2002), Dir. Mohammad Bakri
Jeppe on a Friday (2013) Dir. Arya Lalloo, Shannon Walsh
Jerusalem, We Are Here (2018), Dir. Dorit Naaman a virtual walking tour with Palestinians who were expelled from their homes in the 1948 war
Kya hua is shahar ko? / What happened to this City? (1986), Dir. Deepa Dhanraj
Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege (2021), Dir. Abdallah Al-Khatib, Lebanon, France, Qatar
Lubauran (Luna films) (2013)
Madame Sata (2002), Dir. Karim Aïnouz
Mardistan/Macholand (2014) Dir. Harjant Gill
Megacities (1998), Dir. Michael Glawogger
Metal and Melancholy (2007) Dir. Hedy Hangman’s, Lima
Mighty Afrin: in the time of floods (2023), Dir. Angelos Rallis
Moi en Noir (1959) Dir. Jean Rouch
Moug / Waves (2013), Director: Ahmed Nour
My Mother India (2001) Dir. Safina Uberoi
My Sound of Old Rooms (2011), Dir. Sandeep Ray is set in different parts of Kolkata from 1990 to 2011
Not in my Neighbourhood (2018), Dir. Kurt Orderson
Q2P (2006), Dir. Paromita Vohra
Rapsodia en Bogotá (1963), Dir. José María Arzuaga
Roots of Love (2011), Dir. Harjant Gill
São Paulo: a sinfonia da metrópole (Adalberto Kemeny and Rudolf Rex Lustig, 1929), and a late entry into the city symphony genre
7 Islands and a Metro (2006), Dir. Madhsuree Dutta
Somewhere Nowhere (2019), Dir. Reema Kaur, Shashank Walia
Stateless (2020), Dir. Michelle Stephenson, Dominican Republic
Suite Habana (2003), Dir. Fernando Perez
Sunder Nagri/ The City Beautiful (2003), Director: Rahul Roy
Tales from Planet Kolkata (1993), Dir. Ruchir Joshi
The Power of Utopia: Living with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh (2023) Director: Karin Bucher, Thomas Karrer
Tracing Bylanes (2011), Dir. Surabhi Sharma
Up at Night (Nuit Debout) (2019), Dir. Nelson Makengo
Vertical City (2011), Dir. Avijit Mukul Kishore on Mumbai
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