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Talking about architecture with Álvaro Siza Vieira, recipient of the Prizker Prize and one of this century’s finest architects, as well as socialist and passionate smoker.
The film spotlights his early work and allows the viewer to gain in-sight in Siza’s way of working and thinking.

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DE/DK 2015 | Farbe & s/w | DCP | 56 Min. | DE

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. Daz...

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...

A film about the virtues and shortcomings of the new city district - Lasnamäe.

Directed by Mark Soosaar
Accompanied by the phone conversation between Mark Soosaar and architect Malle Meelak there are views of the new district Lasnamäe, Tallinn. Chief architect of the new residential building di...

Fall into the world of Felix Kubin’s experimentation and creation of music sound and his mastering of his instrument of predilection, the KORG MS20. A portrait of a great artist who never stops living with music in his head. With Felix creative power and endless inspiration, the film brings you i...

Microtopia –a documentary about micro dwellings, downsizing and living off the grid.

How would you feel about carrying your home in your pocket or having clothes to live in? For most of us, “house” means stability, structure, and permanence. In an age of increasing population and technological g...

The magnificent Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, one of the world’s preeminent museums, home to Rembrandt - Vermeer, is renovated.
Battles between the museum’s director, curators, politicians, designers are filmed over 10 years.
4 part series and feature with a glorious ending.

Original title: Het Nie...

GIMNY MOSKOVII | ГИМНЫ МОСКОВИИ

Dimitri Venkov's multi-award-winning experimental film The Hymns of Muscovy is a journey to the planet Muscovy, a twin planet of Moscow, where the metropolis is reversed: Hanging in the sky of Muscovy, the colossal buildings of the 20th and 21st centuries pass and...

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...

Richard George Henriquez (born 5 February 1941 in Annotto Bay, Jamaica) is a Canadian architect known for founding Henriquez & Todd with Robert Todd in 1969 which evolved over 50 years to become the Henriquez Partners Architects of today. His projects are known for its blend of unique design with...

New Town Utopia is a documentary feature about utopian dreams and concrete realities… the challenging, funny, and sometimes tragic story of the British new town of Basildon, Essex.

A journey of memory, place and performance guided by the artists, musicians and poets of Basildon. Facing austeri...

Exploring the creative essence of humanity through 's documentary, 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀. This film dives into the world of the Paris Opera Ballet and Alexander Ekman, a progressivist choreographer, through a quest to discover a strong, original, and visually futuristic form. Along this journey, viewers e...

BIG TIME follows star architect Bjarke Ingels over a period of 6 years while he is struggling to complete his largest projects yet, the New York skyscraper W57 and 2 World Trade Center. An intimate insight into the life of a genius innovative mind and his struggle to maintain his own persona whil...

SuperDesign is a film about 19 players of the Italian Radical Movement. 
Through their words and their stories, we retrace the history and the heritage of the movement. They take us back to that time when everything seemed possible. We encountered Emilio Ambasz, Franco Audrito, Dario Bartolini, L...

Habitation Légèrement Modifiées (Slightly Modified Housing)

This fascinating documentary deals with an ambitious and special renovation project in Bois-le-Prêtre, an apartment tower in Paris. The building previously nicknamed as “Alcatraz” was ready for demolition, but instead the city authoriti...

Both a capitalist invention and a Soviet symbol, the concrete slab buildings was a shared reality. People from different countries who live in these buildings tell their stories as they relate to industrial housing in the time of clashing ideologies between East and West. The film puts forward a ...

An award-winning documentary about Cuba's ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro's Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.

In 1961, three young, visionary architect...