AFFR explores the relationship between film, cities and architecture by programming and screening architecture films and by organizing introductions and debates.
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.
The Automat, which premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival, is emerging director Lisa Hurwitz’s debut film. In 2012 and 2013 she directed the Olympia Film Festival and led OFS’s famed digital cinema upgrade campaign. Her next project, a narrative film set in Italy, is currently in development.
