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…
The film raises the subject of China’s accelerated urbanisation during the last decade and presents a case that questions the protection of historic patrimony and cultural copyright: the Chinese (one-to-one ) copy of the Austrian town Hallstatt.
The film EAMES: The Architect and the Painter endeavors to peer inside Charles and Ray Eames’s collaboration, their marriage and the “Renaissance studio” they created in a gritty warehouse in Venice, California. Family members and design historians help guide the story, while interviews with the junior designers swept into the…
The lack of government regulation allows Ukrainians to build any balcony regardless of the style of the building, to the point that people sometimes rebuild them to be bigger than the apartment itself.The film explores the balcony as an informal architectural form that is uniquely Ukrainian. It is a…
Escher: Journey Into Infinity, narrated by Stephen Fry, is the story of world-famous Dutch graphic artist M.C Escher and is based on more than 1,000 letters, diaries and lectures he wrote during his lifetime. We hear him speak in his own words, about his life, his fears, doubts, politics,…
A documentary film about Hans Fackelmann, a prominent architect from the Banat region, showcasing powerful stories and documents from his discreet life.
A documentary film about Hans Fackelmann, a prominent architect from the Banat region, showcasing powerful stories and documents from his discreet life.
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,…
Fernand Pouillon, once dubbed “France’s Most Wanted Architect”, designed and built over five million square metres during his fifty-year career, primarily in France and Algeria. Pouillon flew thousands of kilometres every week in propeller planes, travelling from one construction site to another: Marseille, Paris, Algiers, and even the middle of…
First, Do No Harm explores the transformation of Transylvania’s Saxon villages through the encounters between the residents who have stayed and newcomers from cities in search of a different way of life. A group of newcomers recount how they left the cities and settled in Alma Vii, Richiș, or Biertan.
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…
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…
