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.

Call for Entries AFFR 2021

Are you a filmmaker, film producer or film distributor? And have you completed a feature film, documentary, animation film or short about a topical issue related to the city, architecture, landscape or built environment somewhere in the world? If so, we kindly invite you to submit your film for AFFR 2021. Please include with your submission a secure online screener, trailer, synopsis and high-resolution stills.

AFFR 2021
The thirteenth edition of the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam takes place at LantarenVenster cinema from 6 to 10 October 2021. The AFFR editors — headed by curator Jord den Hollander — select around 85 high-profile international films about recent developments in the city and architecture. In addition to screening feature films and documentaries, the festival includes talk shows, debates and lectures related to topical issues.

Submit your film at AFFR 2021.

More than Houses
AFFR 2021 focuses on the huge challenge to build homes all over the world, with as theme: More Than Houses. The United Nations has calculated that over two billion homes need to be built this century to accommodate the rising population of the planet. In the Netherlands alone, the target for the next decade is to build one million new homes. That’s 100,000 units a year.

Filmmakers and film producers are invited to submit films, documentaries and shorts in the field of city and architecture for the upcoming edition. Deadline is 19 May 2021. For questions or more information: info@affr.nl

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