2021 - AFFR
8–12 Oct 2025
film • stad • architectuur

Programme overview

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Speakers festival 2024

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Filmmakers festival 2024

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Press

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Newsletter

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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 History

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Organisation

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Contact

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Bye Bye Tiberias winner of the AFFR Audience Award 2024

After each screening, we asked our visitors for their opinion of the film with the celebrated AFFR tear-off card. A convincing majority chose Bye Bye Tiberias, in which filmmaker Lina Soualem travels back in time and place to capture the…
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Festival 2021

More Than Houses

AFFR turns its attention to the huge challenge to build homes all over the world. The United Nations has calculated that over two billion homes need to be built this century; in the Netherlands alone, the target for the next decade is to build one million new houses.

“I think the documentaries are very well chosen. I especially find the panel discussions, Q&A and talks of great added value.”

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The best films of AFFR 2021

VENICE ELSEWHERE - Elia Romanelli, 2021

The dream as the ultimate escape in a divided and globalized world. A longing for the city slowing sinking under the weight of tourists and water: Venice.

CHARLOTTE PERRIAND - Stéphane Ghez, 2019

A revealing portrait of designer and free thinker Charlotte Perriand, one of the most distinctive designers of the 20th century.

SPEER GOES TO HOLLYWOOD - Vanessa Lapa, 2020

Rare archival footage and a wonderful story make Speer Goes to Hollywood just as fascinating and dubious as the Nazi architect himself.

EPICENTRO - Hubert Suaper, 2020

Hubert Sauper, the prize-winning documentary maker of Darwin’s Nightmare, returns with a fascinating look at the history of Cuba based on the films shot there.

BUILDING BASTILLE - Leif Kaldor, 2021

The Canadian architect Carlos Ott was 35 years old with little building experience when in 1982 he won the biggest competition of the time: the design of the new Paris opera house.

“Nice variety of movies, nice to have an introduction and Q&A afterwards and it’s very cozy in the foyer.”

film • city • architecture 8 - 12 Oct. 2025