Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam - Film • City • Architecture
8–12 Oct 2025
film • stad • architectuur

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Film – City – Architecture

AFFR explores the relationship between film, cities and architecture by programming and screening architecture films and by organizing introductions and debates.

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AFFR x RA Month ’25: Universal Language – Fri 20 June 20:00 - AFFR
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AFFR x RA Month ’25: Universal Language – Fri 20 June 20:00

Especially for RA Month'25, AFFR presents the pre-premiere of a film that is already regarded as a future cult classic: Universal Language, by the Canadian director Matthew Rankin - the…

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Universal Language<br>interview with Cristina Ampatzidou - AFFR
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Universal Language
interview with Cristina Ampatzidou

'If your optimism and trust in humanity need a boost, don't miss this film!'

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AFFR 25 Years! The Real Thing - AFFR

AFFR 25 Years! The Real Thing

To help you get into the holiday mood, this June AFFR takes you to London, Paris and Venice - in China - with The Real Thing. Copycat architecture, that's what…

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AFFR tips: five highlights RA Month ’25 - AFFR

AFFR tips: five highlights RA Month ’25

The screening of Universal Language is part of Rotterdam Architecture Month ‘25, the Netherlands’ largest architecture festival about the future of the city. For the entire month of June, Rotterdam…

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Film & Architecture Studio 2025 - AFFR

Film & Architecture Studio 2025

AFFR and the Independent School for the City have joined forces again for the yearly Film & Architecture Studio, supervised by architect, curator and filmmaker Jord den Hollander. The studio…

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AFFR 2025:<br>8 – 12 October - AFFR
Festival 2025

AFFR 2025:
8 – 12 October

Preparations for the next edition of AFFR have already started, mark the dates on your calendar: 8 - 12 October 2025. See you then!

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Past edition

Festival 2024

In 2024, AFFR presented a renewed program organised in thematic sections, with more fiction films than ever before. As in previous editions, the festival addressed urgent topics with three alternating programmes that combine films and documentaries with insightful introductions, the so-called Stages - this year Women Perspectives, Leading Light and Urban Greens. In addition to the Stages and the long standing Specials, in 2024 the festival also presented their new, annually recurring Paths: Portraits, Hands on, Cityscapes, Bigger Picture, Cameos and Showstoppers.

AFFR 2024 Aftermovie

A selection of the festival’s highlights

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The best films of AFFR 2024

Bye Bye Tiberias - Lina Soualem, 2023

Filmmaker Lina Soualem travels back in time and place to capture the stories passed on by four generations of daring Palestinian women in her family.

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Kombinà - Lyongo Juliana, 2024

Architect Lyongo Juliana works on the Caribbean Islands, and through his architecture he studies how you represent local culture. To do this, he talks to users, clients and relevant experts.

Maurice and I - Jane Mahoney, Rick Harvey, 2024

The Christchurch concert building is one of the Brutalist gems of New Zealand. In the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake, the building is threatened with demolition. The retired architects have to fight to preserve their masterpiece.

Reports from the Tower of Yearning - Carel van Hees, 2024

A personal portrait full of compassion and humour about the ‘RVS’ apartment building, also known as the Hunkerbunker. During the pandemic, photographer Carel van Hees bumps into Gerrie here, a woman aged 106. She tells her colourful story

Made in Ethiopia - Xinyan Yu, Max Duncan, 2024

The Eastern Industry Zone is a gigantic Chinese complex built in the interior of Ethiopia. Two cultures clash with each other here. A nuanced image of the growing Chinese influence in Africa.

At the Garden’s Pace - Juan Benavides, 2024

A meditative look at the construction process of the new pavilion in the Pinetum Blijdenstein Botanical Gardens in Hilversum, by Rotterdam-based architect Enzo Valerio and his team.

“I am so grateful that we have a dedicated architecture film festival and congratulations to the team for curating and organizing an amazing event!”

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film • city • architecture 8 - 12 Oct. 2025
8 to 12 Oct.2025