The opening ceremony of both festivals - Day of Architecture and Film and Architecture - will be accompanied by a screening of the film The Human Shelter. Lyrical documentary about...
Story about the construction and subsequent reconstruction of the German pavilion in Barcelona designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich The functionalist pavilion from granite stands at the...
Short documentary film, zooming in on a Bauhaus style cottage The Hatch House is a wooden cottage designed in 1960 in the modernist style by Jack Hall. Using stop motion...
What does dance have in common with architecture? A great deal, at least in the oeuvre of Aires Mateus – freedom of movement, sense for composition and detail. The architecture...
The director and artist Jill Magid traces the controversial legacy of the most celebrated Mexican architect Luis Barragán Known as “the artist among architects”, Luis Barragán is among the world’s...
Welcome to Longyearbyen, one of the most isolated and coldest places in the world The city of Longyearbyen located in the Norwegian Svalbard Islands resembles a moonscape rather than a...
Documentary outlining the life and work of the prominent author of modern Czech architecture The director Pavel Jirásek introduces historical importance as well as the global and local impact of the...
The Next Palace recalls the existence of the Trade Fair Palace in the last 90 years in the form of a narrative bend. The palace has had a troubled life. It...
How is the life in one of the most polluted cities in the world? Looking very inhospitable, with winter temperatures of thirty degrees Celsius below zero, the city makes the...
What is the language of a city? Three chapters of a city acoustics. The record of time, journey and space. A series of short animated films based on stereophonic recordings...
Will Venice turn into a ghost town at nightfall? The romantic idea of medieval Venice is long gone. Only a city without life remained as a memorial to a dead...
Fascinating view in history of the legendary avantgarde school uniting art, crafts and design in one piece It has been hundred years since Walter Gropius founded Bauhaus in Weimar. The...
Symphonie Diagonale (Diagonal Symphony) is one of the earliest works in abstract film to have been conserved and it is the only one by this artist that has survived to our...
What is the secret of possibly America’s greatest ever architects? It is not the first documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright and certainly not the last film about the man most...
What is the most difficult thing in life of an architect in the DDR? To resist the powerful authorities or to save his marriage? The film Die Architekten brings us...
“Simplicity is the key to excellence.” (Dieter Rams) How does the house of the legend of German industrial design look like? The most recent documentary by the independent filmmaker Gary...
In the immense Chinese city of Chonging, the last old quarter is about to disappear. Will the people cope with the change? In the third largest and most populated Chinese...
At various times during the 60s and the 70s, the urgency of the struggle triggered “a cinema right now”, underground as well as militant, experimental as much as documentary. That immediate...
A humorous, personal and provocative film addressing the phenomenon of gentrification The film’s main arc spans the author’s diverse living environments, beginning with his childhood in a rich neighbourhood to...
Silent mystery thriller will come to life accopanied by the music ensamble FORMA Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari significantly influenced the development...