Shanghai Space, directed by Nanna Frank Møller, takes a poetic and contemplative look at the abnormal growth of China’s great port city, where a new building is constructed every other day, and where the population increases by half a million people each year. A photographer, who has documented the city’s changes over the decades, is now himself a victim of that development, while a professor of urban planning fantasizes about an underground city.
In Mumbai Disconnected, we are presented with three characters. Veena Singhal was born and raised in Mumbai, and has lived 39 years on Pedder Road, where she is president of the Pedder Road Residents Association and has fought for eight years against a planned flyover, a highway overpass, which according to her and the other area residents would increase pollution 540 percent and destroy their neighbourhood.
Cairo Garbage, directed by Mikala Krogh, takes us on a journey into Cairo’s “garbage cities,” entire neighbourhoods where people earn a living sorting and recycling garbage. Cairo shows us the culture and habit factors at play in this Middle Eastern city, where Italian contractors are hired to solve increasingly unmanageable waste-management tasks.
Bogotá Change, directed by Andreas Dalsgaard, is the unique and surprising story of two mayors, Antanas Mockus and Enrique Peñalosa, who have changed behaviour patterns in the Colombian capital, bringing Bogotá out of a negative spiral of violence and chaos and remaking it as something of a visionary role model for other megacities.
