Films in Competition

This film tells the story of the reconstruction of the Figueira Primary School (Pedrógão Grande, Leiria), and how it was turned into a Support Centre for Wildfire Victims (AVIPG). This regeneration is an example of how the rebuilding of a place can become a starting point ...

Directed with low-fi and amateur media, the film takes Porto Alegre (Brazil) as a case study. Exhibiting a series of interviews and following the participants in their everyday lives in gated communities, or highly secured buildings and houses, the film pictures the contradictions and ambiguities of living behind golden gates ...

In Tel Aviv, a young Israeli named Daphni looks back on the time she went from a naive demonstrator to the figurehead of a national protest movement. A strong and dynamic documentary, delivered as a personal account, against the gentrification of cities ...

In 1960, the so-called Year of Africa, many African countries liberate themselves from European colonial powers and become independent, including the Ivory Coast. And independence leads to a real boom in architecture ...

By 2030, two billion people are expected to be living in slums. As their first feature film, the directors portray contemporary architecture in Ecuador as an example of alternative architectural practices that address social issues, seek innovation in local resources, and ultimately aim to change the way in which the ...

Istanbul's street vendors adapt to fast paced urban changes when their neighborhoods are destroyed and residents are evicted over the course of 5 years. As old buildings and traditions disappear, a strong awareness develops in the younger generations and a new voice emerges through a socially engaged hip-hop group ...

Jaar, Lament of the Images observes the creative and personal process of Alfredo Jaar, the most renowned international Chilean contemporary artist. According to Jaar, art is the last space left in society, through which one can speak honest and profoundly about social conflicts, in a world ruled by consumption and ...

Moriyama-San is warm and light-hearted documentary about Yasuo Moriyama, the "urban hermit" who lives inside a house built by Ryue Nishizawa - one of the two founders of Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architecture studio SANAA back in 2005. The house dynamics, built to measure to serve Moriyama’s needs, is fully presented ...

How to understand today’s refugee crisis? The director delves into the story of her own family, one of only twelve Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War Two. The story is told through the voice of her father Alfred Willer, who witnessed bureaucratic nightmares, transportations ...

End of adolescence, end of school, the last summer before joining the working world for a group of friends from the neighborhood of Alcoitão, “BDA”. With no adults around there is an illusion one can do what one wants. André improvises his life like in a rap music, searching for a path that will allow him more freedom, escaping from what’s familiar and close to him, but he’ll never manage to escape from himself ...

On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand, in search of the farm where they grew up together ...

Mikhail is a meticulous supervisor of a residential building nearby the Black Sea. His monotonous everyday life is about to be shaken by the new neighbour across the floor, the young and extroverted Evelina ...

The film is a trip to the planet Muscovy, which is an upside down space twin of the city of Moscow, accompanied by the Hymnic Variations on the Soviet anthem by the composer Alexander Manotskov, originally written in 1943. Manotskov used an early recording of the anthem as source material to create three electronic variations each corresponding to an architectural style ...

An ambitious architect and his passionate client collide during the creative process in order to design a perfect family home. The film, inspired by a short story by Ramsey Nasr, is a meticulous ode to an imaginary space built on contradictory interests, unrequited desires and exploded dreams ...

Coastland presents a fictional narrative rooted into architectural research. The film is created entirely out of the author’s collection of authentic postcards of the Romanian seaside resorts, circulated between early 1960s throughout the late 1980s ...

Exhibition of a shadow - a c-/kinematic installation at Galerie Göttlicher, Krems (2014) ...

Forensic reveals both the striking architecture and the daily activities of the Netherlands Forensic Institute in Ypenburg, the Netherlands ...

The understanding of domestic, cyclic time-space in Ozu Yasjirō’s cinema takes material form in Hara Setsuko, “The Eternal Virgin”, woman-actress-character-myth constantly alone in the shot, accomplice in an attack against the classical understanding of raccord ...

Topography of the Unseen é uma experiência visual criada a partir de um modelo de alta-fidelidade Point-Cloud da historicamente relevante Parramatta Female Factory Precinct (uma antiga prisão para mulheres que também acolhia crianças órfãs) na zona oeste de Sidney ...

The capital of Brazil is known for its modernist architecture and its urban drawing, as well as being a political center. The city experienced by its inhabitants, however, goes beyond this, and have its own positive and negative peculiarities. The film explores if - and how - the space influences the inhabitants of the city, its urban life and their social relationships ...

The movie takes the audience into the Faculty of Architecture, in Porto, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira and is based on a recurring experience lived by students: being locked inside of the building after long working sessions during nigh time ...

The post WWII, mid-century (1959-1970) spa district of Zawodzie (Ustroń, Poland) was designed by a duo of renowned Silesian architects – Henryk Buszko and Aleksander Franta. This film discusses the issues of who should have the power over the landscape and how to be responsible for the heritage as a common good ...

Die Laube is a self-built wooden structure in the summer of 2016 within the urban garden Prinzessingarten, located in the district of Kreuzberg, Berlin. The film portrays the construction process and the opening days ...

Since the mid-20th century, the parish of São Vicente’s population has decreased significantly due to emigration. The last censuses show that only 11% of the population is between 15 and 24 years old. The images we see show the present while the sound is made from the idealized, fictionalized, constructed, memory of a shared past ...