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.
Thierry Somers is editor-in-chief and art director of Nook, an interior architecture magazine published by BNI. Thierry has worked for various magazines, including Esquire, GQ and Depot Journaal for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. He interviewed many renowned architects and artists including Kengo Kuma, Sou Fujimoto, Elizabeth Diller and Patrik Schumacher for Nook and Marina Abramovic, Ole Scheeren, Winy Maas, Anish Kapoor, Gilbert & George for 200%, a publication he founded in 2006.
