2018 - AFFR
9–13 Oct 2024
film • stad • architectuur

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 History

The Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) was established in 2000, and the foundation organized its festival the same year as the first architecture film festival in the world. Festivals also took place again in 2001 and 2003. In 2007 AFFR made a fresh start after a few years of silence. In 2009 the event expanded significantly in terms of visitor numbers and programming.

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Organisation

Learn more about the people behind the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam

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Contact

Postal and visiting address, contact details

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Festival 2018

Building Happiness

In its tenth edition, the theme of which is ‘Building Happiness’, the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam explored how we can view the side effects of the pursuit of happiness as a challenge to create a better and more sustainable world. What progress have we made with the circular economy and the construction of a climate-neutral city? What scenarios can we devise for a fair and just society? And what role can filmmakers, designers, planners, academics and politicians play in this regard?

Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam Explores “Building Happiness” in Historic and Contemporary Design

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The best films of AFFR 2018

Leaning into the Wind; Andy Goldsworthy

The landscape art of Andy Goldsworthy has its own spiritual beauty. A direct translation of our ability or inability to relate to the surrounding landscape. The film intrusively follows the activities of the artist.

Last Days in Shibati

Home to millions, the Chinese metropolis of Chongquing has been almost completely modernized, but one older neighbourhood bravely continues to resist rebuilding.

Planeta Petrila

The coal mine in the Romanian town of Petrila is more than a mine. To the city’s inhabitants, it is their life, their source of income, and the pivotal point of the community.

Family in the bubble

This classic tale of a housing bubble and how it burst is told as a blood-chilling family chronicle. The setting is Seoul, city of millions, population density unparalleled.

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Do more with less

A film that touches the foundations of architecture: how to be inspired by limited resources and limited use of materials to create interesting architectural feats.

“Architects can make architecture unnecessarily complicated. What they avoid is simple language. Film helps in that regard.” – Melanie van der Hoorn

film • city • architecture 9 - 13 Oct. 2024