Fackelmann
A documentary film about Hans Fackelmann, a prominent architect from the Banat region, showcasing powerful stories and documents from his discreet life.
Fackelmann
A documentary film about Hans Fackelmann, a prominent architect from the Banat region, showcasing powerful stories and documents from his discreet life.
Fallen City
Even for a country historically plagued by earthquakes, the 2008 quake in the Sichuan province was devastating. Nearly 70,000 people were killed and thousands more were missing and never found, making it the deadliest quake in the country in three decades. The old town of Beichuan, home to 20,000 people,…
Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf
After completing a feature documentary on New York’s High Line, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Piper met the inspirational designer and plantsman, Piet Oudolf, and the idea for a new project was born. Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf immerses viewers in Oudolf’s work and takes us inside his creative process,…
Flowers of Ukraine
Natalia (67), a strong, independent anarchist with a sharp sense of humour, is determined to defend her beloved land against all odds. What begins as a battle against developers soon takes on a deeper meaning when Russia invades Ukraine, intensifying her fight for survival. Flowers of Ukraine paints a compelling…
Forever
Forever is a film about the power and vitality of art, about a place where love and death go hand in hand, and beauty lives on: the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Père-Lachaise – one of the world’s most famous and beautiful cemeteries – is the final resting place of a…
Franco’s Promise
The village of Belchite in Aragon is emblematic for the collective oblivion that took over Spain after the Civil War. Today, the broken memory of its population is lost amongst the ruins of the old village (destroyed by battles during the war), and throughout the streets of the new establishment,…
Free time in socialist Bucharest – Archive Movies
How and where did the people of Bucharest live during the socialist period? What did their jobs look like? And where did they have fun and relax? Through the 27 archive films contained in the three thematic blocks of the program, we aim to explore as many facets as…
Gaming the Real World
Can games change the world? With cities everywhere struggling to cope with the population growth that increased urbanisation brings, can video games be harnessed to help the residents, especially young people, take part in planning, and fixing their own cities? Today public spaces and entire cities are being designed,…
Garazas
The closed microcosm of garage co-ops, where the socio-economic environment has blended with personal space, provides a step back in time. Men are still boys, but their tinkering is both the trade and hobby of individual entrepreneurs, since self-exploitation as leisure time activity is a time capsule where neoliberalism has enclosed…
Getting Frank Gehry
After a career defined by genuine ideas and controversy, the architect Frank Gehry unveiled his first project in Australia, and the local community can’t decide whether it’s a triumph or a failure. The University of Technology in Sydney is also called the “a squashed paper bag” by its critics. The…
Giant
Giant was filmed at the famous, Romanian, Communist-era gymnastics schools of Onesti and Deva where people still train fanatically. Top young gymnasts talk about their love of the sport, their fears and dreams. The combination with archival material from the 1970s onwards reveals links between the photogenic sport and the…