This beautiful, charming, cinematic documentary captures a community project over 130 years in the making. On a small island in the middle of the Irish sea, a giant derelict pier juts out into the rough sea. Closed for decades, now the town is getting a new lease of life thanks…
Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the 20th century, she became a…
The biggest city in the northern hemisphere, Mexico City, is faced with an unprecedented water crisis even though, paradoxically, rain is an often occurrence in this enormous city. H2Omx explores the uncomfortable truth by means of an extraordinary excursion through the streets and houses of Mexico City, interviewing specialists and…
The chronic shortage of housing in the district of Central Havana has pushed the city upwardsobliging many people to dwell in makeshift houses onto the rooftops of the buildings. The documentary tracks down the stories of some of these residents and their resourcefulness in finding solutions to their problems…
Ani and Sanda are two girls from Maramureş who were raised by their grandparents. Their parents work in Spain to raise enough money to build a house where the whole family would live happily. Ten years later, however, the house is still unfinished, and the happiness still out of reach.
“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…
Shortly after the real estate bubble had burst in the United States Spain was struck by the same fate. In total 3,6 million housing units – ranging from completed houses to ruins or half developed lots – are facing an uncertain future. How will man and nature reclaim those spaces?…
As a visibly disabled person, filmmaker Reid Davenport sets out to make a film about how he sees the world, from either his wheelchair or his two feet, without having to be seen himself. The unexpected arrival of a circus tent outside his apartment in Oakland, CA leads him to consider the history and legacy of P.T. Barnum’s Freak Show and its lingering presence in his daily life in the form of gawking, lack of access, and other forms of ableism.
As a visibly disabled person, filmmaker Reid Davenport sets out to make a film about how he sees the world, from either his wheelchair or his two feet, without having to be seen himself. The unexpected arrival of a circus tent outside his apartment in Oakland, CA leads him to consider the history and legacy of P.T. Barnum’s Freak Show and its lingering presence in his daily life in the form of gawking, lack of access, and other forms of ableism.
In 2013, Romulus Balazs, the director of the film, discovered a book highlighting an historic event of Romania, his native country, which he knew nothing about: its participation in the Holocaust. Browsing through it, he came across a series of photographs taken during a pogrom in the Romanian city of…
Iľja Skoček is a co-author of one of the most distinctive and most important buildings of Slovak modernity. The film is his portrait, but it also tries to go beyond architecture as a topic. It’s about life. It’s about the past and the future. It’s about the way of…
Iľja Skoček is a co-author of one of the most distinctive and most important buildings of Slovak modernity. The film is his portrait, but it also tries to go beyond architecture as a topic. It’s about life. It’s about the past and the future. It’s about the way of…
