ADFF 2025/26 Festival Season Wraps — More Screenings Ahead

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February 27, 2026

We’ve just wrapped up the 2025/26 ADFF festival season. While the main season has concluded, we’ll continue to host special screenings and events in the coming months, leading up to the launch of our 2026/27 season in New York.

3/4 in NYC - Make Materials Matter + Conversation

ADFF is working with the Copenhagen Architecture Forum to present a screening of Søren Pihlmann: Make Materials Matter, followed by a conversation with architect Søren Pihlmann and curator Beatrice Galilee, Founder of The World Around.

The event will take place at Angelika Film Center in the East Village. For tickets and more information, click here.

Søren Pihlmann

Beatrice Galilee

3/12 in NYC - Strange & Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island + Conversation

The next edition of Cine Nights x GROHE at the LIXIL Water Center, 155 Fifth Avenue, will feature a screening of the remarkable film Strange and Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with Zita Cobb, Founder of the Shorefast Organization and a central figure in the film, and Kyle Bergman, Founder and Festival Director of the Architecture & Design Film Festival.

For more information and to reserve your seat, click here.

Zita Cobb

Kyle Bergman

ADFF:MUMBAI 2026 Recap and Highlights

Architecture & Design Film Festival and STIR collaborated to present the second edition of ADFF:Mumbai. The 2026 festival attracted more than 12,000 attendees across multiple venues, strengthening ADFF’s growing presence in South Asia and advancing its mission to connect global audiences with the stories, processes, and people behind the spaces we inhabit.

ADFF returned to Mumbai with an expanded program featuring over 30 films, more than 50 speakers, and nine custom-built pavilions. Here are some of the highlights:

Films — This season, films were screened across four cinemas. The program included a special selection of five 3D films, featuring three works directed by Wim Wenders—Anselm, Pina, and The Berlin Philharmonic—the last of which explores Hans Scharoun's design of the Philharmonic.

The selection also included The Salk Institute, directed by Robert Redford, focusing on the building by Louis Kahn, and The Oslo Opera House, directed by Margreth Olin, which examines a landmark design by Snøhetta.

Speakers — More than 50 speakers participated in the festival. Conversations took multiple formats, including Prologues, Epilogues, Dialogues, and traditional post-screening Q&As, creating a dynamic range of perspectives and exchanges around the films.

Pavilions — Curated by Aric Chen, the pavilion program was selected by a jury including Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lesley Lokko OBE, Martha Thorne, Ma Yansong, and Raj Rewal. The jury reviewed more than 75 submissions and selected nine pavilion projects, which were installed as part of the festival in Mumbai. Following the festival, the pavilions were dismantled and transported to different sites across India.

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