The jubilee tenth year of the festival is over and we would like to thank you for your support! We managed to sell out several screenings and we are very happy about that.
The festival is still growing and this year, in addition to twenty short and classic films, we also presented the simultaneous world premiere of the Dorte Mandrup film portrait.
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World premiere and simultaneous live-stream of the film Another Kind of Knowledge on Copenhagen Copenhagen Architecture Festival and on the Film and Architecture Festival in Prague.
The screening of a brand new documentary on the Danish architect Dorte Mandrup followed by a conversation between her and a Danish/Greenlandic geologist Minik Rosing on working within the context of nature and culture when you build. It will be moderated by journalist Anna Ingrisch Krasnik.
Her buildings always speak about a place. But who is Dorte Mandrup? What has shaped her approach to architecture?
Closing ceremony of the festival in Prague and Brno. Mario Botta is a prominent figure in architecture and a favorite of KRUH. He had a lecture in Prague and we regularly present films dedicated to his work. The movie, Mario Botta. Space Beyond, focuses on his sacral buildings. The Czech architect, author of several churches, Marek Štěpán, will present the screening in the Scala cinema in Brno. Spectators in Prague will not miss the introduction either, as it will be recorded and shown at the evening screening in Světozor.
The screenings in Prague will traditionally take place in Kino Světozor and CAMP – Center of Architecture and Metropolitan Planning. You can find tickets for the screenings on profile of the movies in our programme.
Screenings in CAMP are accessible free of charge, but the seats must be reserved via GoOut portal. Tickets for events held at the Světozor Cinema can be purchased on the cinema’s website.
In addition to traditional screenings at the BUT Faculty of Architecture, this year there will also be projections in the cinemas of Brno.
Architect Marek Štěpán will do a short introduction before the screening of closing film of the festival, Mario Botta. The Space Beyond. Tickets for the screening can now be purchased on the Scala Cinema website. On the website of Kino Art you will find tickets for The New Bauhaus movie. Events at the Faculty of Architecture are accessible free of charge.
No fewer than sixteen films will be introduced for the first time and probably also for the last time in the Czech Republic. It is a unique opportunity to enjoy shots of architecture on a big screen. The individual screenings will be accompanied by shorter film works. It is their presentation that gives us the opportunity to support young and emerging filmmakers. This year, we’ve chosen three films in an open call: Over the Walls, Three Patios for the Sun and Route.
We are revealing the programme of this years’s edition of Film and Architecture Festival 2021! You can already find a detailed programme on this website. Over twenty films, 15 Czech premieres, lectures, discussions with the creators and one dance performance divided into three thematic sections: Connection, Space Beyond and Architectural Legacy.
This year we also commemorate 150 years since the birth of Jan Kotěra, and for this occasion, KRUH has produced a series of short films dedicated to the work of the pioneer of modern architecture in The Czech Republic.
This year, in addition to Prague, the Film and Architecture Festival will take place in another 14 cities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia!
Films from our programme will be screened in Brno, Břeclav, Hodonín, Jeseník, Karlovy Vary, Liberec, Mikulov, Nymburk, Olomouc, Ostrava, Piešťany, Řevnice, Pilsen and Zlín.
The first category of film selection and at the same time the main theme of this year is Connection. Architecture plays an important role in connecting people, places and cultures. It represents a whole composed of many diverse disciplines and inevitably extends to societal issues. It becomes a tool for shaping and understanding the world around you. The spaces in which we move daily directly and indirectly affect our lives. How does it define and influence our surroundings? And what happens when it fundamentally changes or even disappears?
Another category goes beyond architecture and film. The space above us can be defined in many ways, on a general scale it can be understood as a refuge from which the traffic below it can be watched from above. Architecture not only shapes matter and space and determines their function, but also has the ambition to be a bearer of ideology and a mediator of deeper spiritual knowledge. Four films that take us beyond the space of our ordinary perception.
The last category deals with architecture as a material form of heritage, which history leaves behind as a reminder of its time and which at the same time is constantly looking for its purpose in the present. A function that is bestowed on one generation can be transformed by another or interpreted completely differently. These references are often the unconscious basis of the cultural identity of their inhabitants. A theme that recalls not only the unique historical architecture, but also reflects on the variability of the social value of buildings over time.
This year, a number of films by Czech and foreign authors have been submitted, of which we have included a total of three in the program:
A feature-length documentary by French director Marie-Noelle Battaglia Over the walls. The pair of Portuguese filmmakers Miguel C. Tavares and Tiago Amado shot the poetic film Three Patios for the Sun. The last is Tereza Štěpánová’ film Route.
We thank all the filmmakers for their inspiring works and we look forward to see more next year!
In 2021, the 10th edition of the Film and Architecture Festival will continue its successful programme full of Czech and foreign films focusing on the top contemporary architecture and architectural approaches to current social problems. Most of them will be screened as a Czech premiere.
Main theme of this year’s programme will be CONNECTION. Because of the importance of connection of every kind in the times coronavirus.