Entering the lives of the people who work or live in one of the biggest cultural Center in Europe, the directors of Barbicania paint the portrait of an unique world. From the top floor to the basement, in the concert hall, in the laundry room, in the hall ways or…
Bucharest. A block of flats and its inhabitants, snapshots of a life lived cheek by jowl, intimate moments shared with us. Twenty years after the fall of the Ceausescu regime, in the midst of a deep economic crisis, the people we meet in this film overflow with an unquenchable lust…
CONCRETE LOVE is the first and only documentary about one of Germany’s preeminent architects, Gottfried Boehm. Being the only German laureate of the prestigious Chicago based Pritzker Price for Architecture, he is also the patriarch of an architecture dynasty to which his sons Stephan, Peter & Paul belong. But with…
The communist regime has fallen, but the huge construction sites it left behind are still standing. A new wind blows over Romanian cities. 25 years after the economic and political liberation of the country, the urban scenery is being again transformed. The film follows the evolution of a country in…
My neighbour is transforming her old furniture in wood for fire. In contrast with her fragility, the ability with which the old lady smashes wood is astonishing. She is destroying not only her furniture, but also her memories related to this objects and when this wood will be used as…
It’s a story about simply life, friendship and dreams. The everyday hard work and living in the train far away from home shape the life of a group of railway workers. The male community shares its joys and fears and has to bear the consequences of being apart from their…
“People live in a row now”, says one of the old houses of Istanbul about the apartment blocks surrounding her. In a city in which the skyline changes from a street to another, people who choose to still live in traditional houses can’t understand those who choose to live in…
Special screenings. All the money raised from selling the tickets to this film will be used for the recovery of Miluță Flueraș, a friend of ours who was injured at Club Colectiv. INSIGHT looks upon contemporary art galleries in Bucharest. Through the artistic directions they follow, the way they communicate…
When you live in just a few square meters, your living space extends in the outside of your home. This documentary, which combines real facts with fiction, takes us in some of Tokyo’s homes and explores the relationship between their occupants and the areas around them. It’s a fascinating journey…
The film shows different solutions for minimal, mobile or flexible living. In the same time it raises different questions: in contemporary times, how do we change the way we live? How can we take as little space as possible? Is living in very small space a utopia?…
An emblematic building for the Japanese Metabolism movement, Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower is in danger of being demolished. This documentary raises some very legit questions: when and why needs a building to be saved? When and for whom is demolition a tragedy?…
The grey nights of communist Warsaw were lit up by neon. In an era in which the state tried to control creativity, the luminous shop signs became works of art. The documentary takes viewers on a journey into the Neon Museum and into Warsaw’s history. The screening will be followed…
One in six Romanians has gone abroad to work. Most of them come from rural areas and the money sent back home has irreversibly transformed their native villages. Unlike in the city, where even competition is experienced and perceived individually and behind closed doors, changes are highly more visible in…
A short documentary that shows, in a one minute time laps, the daily routine of an old lady that sits all day long on a bench in front of her apartment block.
This short documentary rebuilds the history of a well-known English brutalist residential complex in the moment of its imminent demolition. Which are the technical & social causes that have contribute, in a staggering 40 years period of time, to the decision to bring Robin Hood Garden down? The screening will…
In 2014, Chicago lost an emblematic building: The Prentice Women’s Hospital. The film tells the story of an infrastructure that not only changed the appearance of an entire area, but also reinvented the organizational structure of the modern hospital. Caught in the technological evolution spiral, this building made way for…
“Tomorrow you’ll move in an apartment building and you’ll be happy!”. China is building huge cities from ground in the middle of the desert. For the new residents, most of them coming from rural areas, the modern facilities are unknown. The documentary follows the story of populating a ghost town.
The crisis of housing is an acute problem at the beginning of the Romanian communist regime. Three homeless architects who are trying to find a place to sleep think about the way they can put as many people as possible in the new housing projects imposed by the government.
This amazing & colourful documentary follows the story of the last magicians and puppeteers colony in New Delhi, threatened with demolition by a mall and a skyscraper. Being first described by Salman Rushdie in his novel “Midnight’s Children”, the Kathputli colony is a magical place.
From Milan to Mumbai, this documentary takes us on a journey around the homes of those who shape modern cities: the architects. Apartments, villas, old industrial spaces or apparently modest houses, what do the architects of the world call „home”? The screening will be followed by a Q&A Session with…
