Festival 2022
Thank you for visiting AFFR 2022, save the date for 4 – 8 Oct 2023!
The fourteenth Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam was a big celebration. We received lots of positive responses to the almost 100 powerful, critical and beautiful films about various subjects with the…
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Marieke Berkers Interim Director AFFR
Marieke Berkers is to take up the position of interim director of the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam. On 1 January 2023, she will succeed Joep Mol, who is taking leave…
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Festival 2022
GES-2 by Nastia Korkia wins the AFFR Audience Award
After each screening, we asked our visitors for their opinion of the film with the celebrated AFFR tear-off card. A convincing majority chose GES-2, the debut film by the Russian…
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Recap #1: Opening Night
Yesterday we had the pleasure of welcoming a full house to Theater Zuidplein for our festive Opening Night. In the coming days we have a packed programme with premieres, debates…
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Recap #2: Rotterdam Speciaal, a world premiere and singing sailors
Yesterday we presented the talk show Rotterdam Speciaal about the future of the harbor, had a full house for Beyond the Life of Forms and Jacques Tati, tombé de la…
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Recap #3: a Sci-fi Safari, Museums, Millionaires and Best in the World
A Friday with a full schedule of crowd favorites, including Liam Young's Planet City, The Museum and the Millionaire and a special screening of Best in the World followed by…
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Recap #4: fathers, sons, and Architecture in Russia now
A busy day at AFFR yesterday, with films about (grand)fathers and (grand)sons, the journey of a block of marble, as well as an impressive insight in the current state of…
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Recap #5: traveling trees, statues and people, and the future of food
The final day of AFFR's best-attended edition to date featured the screening of Taming the Garden, A Marble Travelogue and an interview with Kadir van Lohuizen, among others. Here’s a…
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AFFR 2022 – Freeze Frame
In a world turned upside down, facing enormous challenges and contending with one new reality after another, AFFR 2022 will focus on the need to press pause. Or, in cinematic…
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Programme Themes
AFFR 2022 explores various subjects through a series of programmed themes that centre on critically selected films and documentaries, complemented by insightful introductions and lively debates. More than ever before,…
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Festival 2022
‘Films that Freeze the Frame’
This year, we are screening a series of documentaries and feature films that show how colonialism, surveillance, climate destruction, conflicts and the market economy can damage the built environment.
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