Urban Planning

Les Films du 3 Mars (F3M) invites you to discover thematic cinema about Urban Planning. From fiction to documentaries, long and short, enjoy the best of Québécois and Canadian filmmaking !

CHRONICLE OF A CITY

76 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

Like a waking dream, Chronicle of a City explores the unique, intimate and mysterious relationship we have with our urbanized world through the place and meaning each of us tries to find in them.

EVICTED CITY

80 min., Documentary, Canada, 5.1

Montreal — one of the few remaining affordable cities in North America — is now in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis. An intimate portrait of socio-political resistance, this multilayered film explores the human impact of real estate speculation on the cities of tomorrow.

ZUG ISLAND

22 min, Documentary, Canada. 5.1

In search of the source of a mysterious hum, a sound man meets locals of an abandoned neighborhood devastated by decades of industrial rollout.

WHAT REMAINS AFTER WE’RE GONE

72 min., Documentary, Canada, 5.1

The harsh winter of a community of squatters in one of the great lost city of America.

PRAYER FOR A LOST MITTEN

79 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

Night has fallen and Montreal is under a blanket of snow. At the City Transit Company, people line up at the lost and found office where upon reflection, losing something becomes a symbol of a deeper loss. The creative documentary is sometimes melancholic, sometimes festive yet always compassionate. In fact, it makes you appreciate Winter.

ZAVEN VS GOLIATH

47 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

“Zaven versus Goliath “is the saga of Zaven Darakjian, a modern-day ‘David’ who attempts to salvage his property from the merciless advance of modern urbanisation.