Riverside Stories comprises four short films and a music video exploring the multifaceted ways in which people interact with the river. The omnibus’s themes center on a single waterway, the Someș in the Cluj area, ranging from the passage of time and the river’s flow, occasionally marred by…
In the 1980s, Richard Hambleton was the Shadowman, a specter in the night who painted hundreds of startling silhouettes on the walls of lower Manhattan and, along with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, sparked the street art movement. After drug addiction and homelessness sent him spinning out of the art…
Shelter Without Shelter is the story of the great hopes and profound challenges of sheltering forced migrants across Europe and the Middle East. Filmed over three years, this documentary feature takes you behind the scenes to the realities of refugee shelters, the people who created them, and the migrants who…
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.
As the Internet finally arrives in tiny Bhutan, documentarian Thomas Balmès is there to witness its transformative impact on a young Buddhist monk whose initial trepidation gives way to profound engagement with the technology. The film follows Peyangki in his rural monastery as he forms, via WeChat, a virtual relationship…
Pritzker Prize winner Álvaro Siza is a major figure in the history of contemporary architecture, with projects that have changed the urban landscape of many cities around the world. Although his name and his works are widely known, Álvaro Siza is a reserved and introspective person who prefers to stay…
A poetic and personal cinematic meditation on displacement, inequality and loss, SKIN OF GLASS follows my journey upon discovering that my late father's most celebrated work as an architect, a modernist glass skyscraper in the heart of São Paulo, has become occupied by hundreds of homeless families.
A documentary series about modernist architecture, its utopian ambitions and controversial fate.The first season deals with Croatian tourist architecture – places where citizens from the East and the West could meet during the Cold War and, together with the locals, put aside their differences in moments of leisure. Surrounded by…
Today, one person in six lives in a slum, a squat, or any other precarious dwelling. Governments consider these to be problems and try to eradicate them by building public housing, but most citizens refuse to live in environments that fail to address their reality. The documentary Slums: Cities…
Having experienced firsthand what it means to have no roof over one’s head, carpenter Khaleel Seivwright began building small, yet well-insulated, shelters for people who spend the winter on the streets of Toronto. Against the backdrop of Canada’s housing crisis, his initiative quickly crossed the city’s borders — drawing both…
Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig traveled for several years in the former Soviet republics, covering a distance of more than 50,000 kilometers from Ukraine to Uzbekistan and from Armenia to the far east of Siberia. The purpose of this trip was to document the bus stations built during the Soviet regime…
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…
