Erected in Novi Belgrade in 1969, the Hotel Jugoslavija was a mythical place. It was both a symbol and a witness to the different moments that shaped former Yugoslavia : From Tito to Milosevic ; from Socialism to Nationalism ; from NATO’s bombings to corrupted economic liberalism. Today, it is st...

A half a billion dollar project, a crushing architectural challenge, an impossible deadline, two warring political titans, and a blind competition. What could go wrong? The film is set in 1982 France when the new socialist President Mitterrand opens a blind competition to build an opera at the si...

The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin is an epoch-defining structure by the architect Mies van der Rohe. It was opened in 1968, shortly after his death. Nearly 50 years later, the director Ina Weisse sets out to examine the period during which this unique edifice was constructed. She is the daughter...

The short-film The Ice Shell Project documents the endeavors of four young architects to develop structures made of ice. The experimental projects oscillate between the precision of digital tools and the pragmatism of craftsmanship. Pressure and tension must be carefully balanced in order to real...

A secluded beach location, the perfect partner, the most exclusive Hotel: 
It is the life of your dreams. Join an eerie trip to a luxurious place of unfulfilled desire, 
nostalgia and endless longing. Catch a unique glimpse through the polished facades 
of a world shaped by abundance and the real...

How can design shape our future? What ideas, questions and strategies occur to designers as they develop future visions? How do we want to live tomorrow?
The film, promoted by the Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe Hamburg, engages with these pivotal questions, asking artists, designers and exhibition m...

The documentary "Aldo Rossi Design" explores the life and work of architect Aldo Rossi, who became the first Italian architect to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1990. The film combines rare archival material and Rossi's writings to create a compelling narrative. The accompanying exhib...

The „LIGHTS” animation short's characters are people with lamp heads, who are living in a modern city. These robot like beings are made in a factory, where our main character is working, but he is different from the others because of his old incandescent lamp head, which isn't accepted by the new...

WHOSE CITY? is a film about the transformation of Berlin from the somewhat run-down and neglected, but highly dynamic and flexible city of the 1990s to today’s ever-more chic and exclusive city. Several documentaries have in recent years been made on this issue. But where most of these films look...

With the technique of photogrammetry, Urban Dreamscape captures a snapshot of the urban facades, 
which so often form the background of everyday life, but are rarely the focus of attention.
They form a distorted dreamscape that is inspired by subconscious visual inputs, mixes with thoughts, 
chan...

The architect Mario Botta retraces some significant steps of his career, exploring the inner questions that pushed him to investigate the spaces of sacred and profane. Two concepts that coexist and raise the doubt from which the architect’s work begins.
Mario Botta’s testimony and some close cri...

8 architects, 8 houses, 8 stories, 8 paradigms of contemporary living.
Presented at Salone del Mobile, part of Milan Design Week 2014, Where Architects Live gives an intriguing insight into the daily lives of some of the world’s leading designers: Shigeru Ban, Mario Bellini, David Chipperfield, M...

"...Creativity is a miracle that exists only when you know how to share it. Our studio is a special place, where this miracle happens every day."
From a letter from Renzo Piano, 14 September 2017

We had access, for several months, to one of the most important architectural firms in the world. Wh...

Seit mehr als 20 Jahren wird über den Alexanderplatz gestritten. 1993 wurde das größte Bauvorhaben der Nachwendejahre verabschiedet. Umringt von 13 Türmen, sollte das ehemalige Zentrum Ost zur neuen Stadt-Krone der wiedervereinigten Stadt werden. Dazu ist es bisher nicht gekommen. Doch den Invest...

What is architecture?
What can architecture do?
What is your architectural position? What is your design method?
Answers to these questions gives Álvaro Siza – architect, socialist, passionate smoker.

Mau is the first-ever, feature-length documentary about the design visionary Bruce Mau. The film explores his unlikely creative journey and ever-optimistic push to tackle the world’s biggest problems with design.

Director(s): Benji & Jono Bergmann
Writer(s): Benji & Jono Bergmann
Cinematography...