After years moving from venue to venue in Rotterdam, AFFR in 2011 eventually found a home at LantarenVenster cinema. Designed by Álvaro Siza and located on Wilhelminapier, LantarenVenster is the perfect setting for a festival about film, cities and architecture.
In 2015, AFFR expanded. With the founding of Club Fountainhead for friends and the King Kong Business Club for relations and networking, AFFR has continued to build up and maintain a loyal following. In addition, the festival has broadened in scope, with new programme elements and excursions through Rotterdam.
Each festival is organized around a theme to highlight current issues in architecture and urbanism. Themes of previous festivals were:
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- 2007: Horizon
- 2009: Pre-architecture & citydocs
- 2011: Think Big, Act Small
- 2013: Time Machine
- 2015: Global home
- 2017: City for Sale
- 2018: Building Happiness
- 2019: Lost in Transition
- 2020: Guilty Architecture
- 2021: More than Houses
- 2022: Freeze Frame
- 2023: Contested Space