Better Cities Film Festival: Coming to YOUR living room

Tired of watching the same old shows during your pandemic lockdown?

Chris Elisara, one of the co-leaders of the Lausanne/WEA Creation Care network, Director of the WEA Creation Care Task Force and a long-time advocate for better urban planning, has been working with a couple of friends to produce what looks like a major film festival on the topic of Better Cities.

This is what Chris had to say on Facebook:

It’s a film festival that tells inspiring stories about making cities, towns, and neighborhoods better. This year it is a virtual festival, so my friends you can watch any of the 80 films from over 26 countries wherever you live in the world. We’ve got great feature films (Jane Sweeney check out City Dreamers!), and amazing short films organized into the following categories (which we give a best film award to): Better Communities, Better Economies for All, Better Environment, Better Transport, Better Planning and Design, Better Technology and Innovation. And this year we have some special categories: Architecture & Cities, Bicycling & Cities, Engineering & Cities, Housing & Cities, Next Generation & Cities, Water & Cities, and World Games & Cities.

The dates are Oct. 8-11, but you have 7 days to watch the films after you’ve logged in to watch your first film.

Here’s the Better Cities Film Festival 2020 website. It looks to us like it would take more than 7 days to work through this list, but who knows? There’s a pandemic on…

FEATURE FILMS

City Dreamers

Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route

Dreamhood

MOTHERLOAD

Priced Out

The Great Disconnect

SHORT FILM BLOCKS

Better Communities

GOOD WHITE PEOPLE: A Short Film About Gentrification,
The Liveable Regional Cities in Bangladesh Project 2019,
COLOSAL Cerro la Campana,
Entangled,
Windows,
Medellin in Paris,
Segregated By Design

Better Economies for All

Working Cities Wednesday,
The Eastpoint Project,
GOOD WHITE PEOPLE: A Short Film About Gentrification,
Sustainable Development Training – Milan Food Policy,
Dehlight

Better Environment

On the Fenceline: A Fight for Clean Air,
Nepal Ecocity Network,
There’s a Dinosaur on Oxford Street,
Detroit Hives,
Degrowth in the Suburbs,
Sustainable Development Training – Milan Food Policy,
Blue Goes Green: Net Zero Police Station

Better Planning & Design

Briançon,
Living the Historical Center,
Urbanizing the Suburbs,
Entangled,
Utrecht: Planning for People & Bikes, Not for Cars,
Medellin in Paris,
Living Patrimony,
COLOSAL Cerro la Campana,
5 Blocks

Better Technology & Innovation

The Wilshire Grand Story: Tech Talk,
Starting Small: Open Data in Chile,
What the Hell is a Bluetooth Sniffer?,
GROWTH BELOW,
Pushing Zero

Better Transport

Rhythm’s Gonna Get Ya,
The Innovative Way Ghent Removed Cars From The City,
Age of Automobility,
Gentrification Express: Breaking Down the BQX,
ACT LA: The Problem of Public Transit in Los Angeles,
Last Stop For Lost Property,
Boober,
Spokespeople

Architecture & Cities

Space Needle: A Hidden History,
Instruments in the Architecture: Building The Pianodrome,
DEAR ESTHER,
The Forest Tower

Award Winning films from UNHabitat Better Cities Film Festival @WUF10

The Eastpoint Project,
There’s a Dinosaur on Oxford Street,
GROWTH BELOW,
Nepal Ecocity Network,
Knife Crime – Faith Inspired Awareness Campaign,
Briançon, Living the Historical Center,
Detroit Hives,
Pushing Zero

Bicycling & Cities

Cycling Towards a Brighter Future,
“Hi-Wheel”,
There & Then,
Age of Automobility,
Bike to Dodger Stadium,
Boober,
The Bicycle Maker,
White Bicycle

Engineering & Cities

Building Greener Cities,
Blue Goes Green: Net Zero Police Station

Housing & Cities

Frances,
Piece of the Puzzle,
Outside the Sprawl,
Regeneration,
The People’s Struggle,
The Plummery,
Living Patrimony,
Segregated By Design

Next Generation & Cities

Literacy for Environmental Justice: Cultivating Youth Leaders in Southeast San Francisco,
Rebel Bells,
Rainbow Walks: The First Trail,
Cycling Towards a Brighter Future,
Making our place,
The Bicycle Maker,
We Watch, We Think

Water & Cities