“Wilkommen, bienvenue,” the CEO sang in 2011 when BIG won the architecture competition for a large waste-to-energy plant with a ski slope on top. A camera has followed the process since the tentative beginnings of what became known – from the very first sod cut – as a visionary project…
Matache area, in downtown Bucharest, has gone through radical changes that have influenced the community, leaving the neighbourhood in a state of social and economic disintegration. The documentary film “Matache – Berzei Buzesti” made by Dragos Lumpan is based on extensive footage. Changes in the area were recorded in videos, timelapse and photographs…
Isolated from the chaos of humanity by an ice continent, Norilsk is a closed city, closed to foreigners. Largest city in the North of the world, it is also one of the most polluted on the planet. Norilsk Nickel, the leading producer of copper and nickel, has been in control since its…
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?…
In 1991 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands decided to promote national architecture abroad. All over the world new embassies were realised by prominent Dutch architects. The buildings not only marked the highly original outcome of Dutch architecture, but represented the modern approach of…
MOLE MAN follows RON, a 66-year-old autistic man who has spent the last five decades building a 50-room structure in his parents’ backyard. Using no nails or mortar, Ron instead creates perfectly balanced structures from scavenged materials he finds in the woods outside his Western Pennsylvania home. When Ron’s father…
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 Wastelands of Berlin are unique. Emerging from war-time destruction, economic malaise, and geo-political division, these ostensibly empty sites evolved into laboratories for botanists, artists, and ordinary people seeking respite from the city. Today, however, these unusual spaces are fast disappearing. Natura Urbana explores the spontaneous diversity of plants in…
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…
The award winner Japanese architect Toyo Ito designed the International Baroque Museum in Puebla, Mexico. Nobody knew how to build this project until a team of Mexican constructors accepted the challenge, after two years of searching for someone capable. It was necessary to invent a construction process and to improvise…
In the world, 1 of 8 people lives in a slum, and the phenomenon is rising. In Romania, informal living is a reality that not so many know about. This reality, however, is affecting over 64 000 families and over 200 000 people – invisible citizens that can’t receive a…
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families – the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the…
