2022 BETTER CITIES FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Detroit, USA | October 20th-23rd, 2022
SCHEDULE
Thursday, October 20th
7:30PM
Farm to Foodie
OPENING NIGHT
SHORT FILM BLOCK
68 MINS
You are what you eat. The same is true for cities, they are what they eat. These films explore the relationships between cities and food. Each film explores how caring for our food sources can restore and revitalize our cities.
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Together We Grow
Food Truck Rodeo
Farming on the Urban Edge
Greens for Good
Friday, October 21st
6:30PM
Show Me The Money
SHORT FILM BLOCK
73 MINS
The healthiest economies have heart. They are concerned about more than the bottom line: they care about creating shared wealth, community, and ecological resilience. These short films reveal the connection between place, creative passion, and economic thriving for all.
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Green Nettle
The 100-Mile Jacket
In Bloom
Wetlands
Plastico
Comedians on Bicycles
Ropes in Brown Hands
Friday, October 21st
8:30PM
Raised / Razed
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
52 MINS
Raised/Razed is a documentary feature film about the lasting effects of the federally-backed and locally-executed Urban Renewal program, through the lens of Vinegar Hill, a large African American neighborhood in the heart of Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Hayti neighborhood in Durham, North Carolina. These communities thrived as the center of business, education, religious, and cultural life, until it — like hundreds of Black communities across America — was destroyed.
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Saturday, October 22nd
6:30PM
Architects of Community
SHORT FILM BLOCK
70 MINS
The greatest feature of any city is the community we build together. These short films tell the story of communities drawing together to survive and thrive in the 21st century.
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Reimagining Freedom West
Transforming Cincinnati’s West End
Strangers in Boxes
Time for Life
Bike Yourself
Silver Linings
Ainsworth
It Takes a Village
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Saturday, October 22nd
8:30PM
Planning For People
SHORT FILM BLOCK
90 MINS
Churchill said “We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.” And so it is with the cities. These short films ask how we can shape cities in ways that serve the people rather than sever the people.
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East Quay
Reimagining Albany’s Waterfront
Sea of Parking
Let Pamela Ride
Safe and Seen on 82nd Street
Remnants of Memory
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Sunday, October 23rd
6:30PM
The Healing & Growth of Cities
SHORT FILM BLOCK
60 MINS
How do we care for cities amidst a pandemic and how do we help cities endure their growing pains? These two featurettes look at those issues. If You Have, directed by Academy Award nominated, Ben Proudfoot, chronicles the heroic work of UNICEF amidst the global pandemic. New City chronicles the ambition, skepticism and growing pains of Manila’s rapid redevelopment.
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If You Have
New City
Sunday, October 23rd
7:30PM
The All-Powerful Bike Lobby
SHORT FILM BLOCK
69 MINS
Profiles of the leaders of the alleged All-Powerful Bike Lobby. This series of short films from the past nine years of the festival shows how these activists are using their voice and their wheels to bring about revolution.
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LACBC
Finn
Bicycle Friendly Streets
Biking While Black
Cyclogic
Biketown YYJ
Cycling Towards a Brighter Future
Chocolate Spokes
Vancouver Cycle Chic
Velo Visionaries - Alicia Tapia
Stolen Bike NYC
Placemaking with Cycle Space
Arlington Passages: Grant & Gilliam
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