We will present a free warm-up screening of the festival in the Gočár auditorium at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University on Thursday 22/9 from 18.00!
What is it like to build a habitable cottage at the time of the first lockdown? A special screening of the documentary Valldaura: A Quarantine Cabin takes us to a residence in the middle of the woods near Barcelona, in which students of architecture from all over the world try to build a joint project with their own hands. During the period of the covid pandemic, they experience complete immersion into the creative process with all the advantages and disadvantages of this partially involuntary isolation.
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The programme of the Film and Architecture Festival 2022 is out!
This year, you can expect screenings, premieres, lectures, discussions with creators and other special programmes divided into five thematic sections: Breaking Points, Tribute to Alena Šrámková, Invisible Architects, Design & Build, Inspiration of Jan Hřebejk.
Around 60 movies were submitted to our Open Call this year and we selected almost 10 of them for our programme.
We will be revealing selected movies gradually but the first one is Spanish feature film Valldaura: A Quarantine Cabin in a Pandemic. In the middle of Natural Park in Barcelona, a group of young architects from all over the world live and study the future of ecological design. With the arrival of the COVID crisis, these students are confined in the middle of the woods, living out the problems of self-sufficiency.
This film will be shown as a part of the Festival Warm-Up on September 22 at the building of Faculty of Architecture on Czech Technical University in Prague.
11th edition of the festival will take place from 29/9 to 4/10 2022 in Prague and several other Czech and Slovakian cities.
As usual the festival will offer our audience a selection of contemporary films related to the topic of architecture and urbanism. It will expand with new projection spaces and increase the number of projections. There will also be discussions with the filmmakers and another special accompanying program.
This year’s central theme is Breaking Points in response to today’s turbulent times, which face a number of challenges such as population growth, access to housing, social inequality and the environmental crisis.
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the founder of Czech modernism, Jan Kotěra, the KRUH Association created a series of short films that represent not only selected buildings of this architect, but above all their inhabitants.
Films can be found on our Youtube channel.
One of the short films is Domov od Kotěry, Greta Stocklassa’s film about visiting the villa in Černošice accompanied by the lyrics of the poet Petr Borkovec – a resident of this building.
