Places that make us, places that erase us

Did you know that in the coldest city on Earth, crime rates rise as temperatures fall? Similar curiosities and the existential question of whether people have any impact on the apartments, streets, and cities they inhabit haunt filmmakers who employ exciting cinematic viewpoints to explore not the classic documentary topic of human relationships, but the relationship between humans and their environment. We invite you to enter the worlds of “An Awesome Flat,” “The Black Blizzard,” “Total Life Forever,” and “Where the Silence Is Heard” to search for proof that our existence leaves a trace in the spaces we inhabit and find out what it means to belong.