ADFF:NY- Day 3

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October 14, 2026

Yesterday, we returned to Village East by Angelika for four screenings, each followed by an amazing conversation.

Today, we have five screenings, two post-screening conversations, and a special introduction to The Tingbjerg Experiment.

6:00 PM

Five Living Buildings (by Renzo Piano)

2026 / 86 minutes / United States / Director: Jonathan Goodman Levitt / World Premiere

Q&A with director Jonathan Goodman Levitt moderated by Kyle bergman

This program is co-presented by Zahner

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Five Living Buildings (by Renzo Piano) is a meditation on the often-invisible impact of architecture, told through the experiences of people who use and maintain buildings designed by Renzo Piano and his colleagues.

Across four continents, daily routines unfold at four recently built civic spaces — a Greek cultural center (The SNFCC, Athens), Ugandan children’s hospital (Emergency Hospital, Entebbe), American art museum (The Whitney, New York), and Chinese industrial park (OōEli Complex, Hangzhou) — as well as at the iconic Centre Pompidou (Paris), which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2027. At each location, in turn, we meet student interns and gardeners, doctors and their patients, security guards and museum visitors, maintenance workers, and impending retirees. Key moments of growth and revelation unfold across their stories, each linked to their built environments. In symbiosis with the buildings around them, they not only inhabit the buildings, but transform them into “living organisms” of great influence.

6:15 PM

The Tingbjerg Experiment

2026 / 86 mins / Denmark / Director: Louise Detlefsen / US Premiere

This program is co-presented by the Consulate General of Denmark

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The Tingbjerg Experiment is a portrait of a changing neighborhood. A documentary portrait that, through a series of character-driven stories, goes beyond the prejudices about one of Copenhagen’s most notorious districts.

Over the course of several years, the neighborhood’s population is set to double, and private homes will be built among the public housing. This is based on the “parallel society law” of 2018, which provides the framework for this massive construction project—what researchers call the largest social housing experiment since World War II. No one knows what this process will lead to. Will it be perceived as a loss and a political intervention when houses are built on the lawns just outside residents’ windows? Will the new homes attract new residents eager to create new activities, and will new forms of neighborhood community emerge?

8:15 PM

Out of the Picture

2025 / 88 mins / Belgium / Director: An. Ash Smolar / US Premiere

Q&A with director An. Ash Smolar moderated by journalist Julie Lasky

This program is co-presented by Wallonia-Brussels International

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Out of the Picture explores the invisibilisation of women in the history of architecture, a discipline long dominated by men. Through the voices of architects, including Denise Scott Brown, historians, and researchers, the film investigates the cultural and institutional mechanisms that erased their contributions, while highlighting the solidarities and strategies they develop today to reclaim visibility and legitimacy. Through archives, interviews, and animated sequences, the documentary reveals how power and history determine who gains access to the frame and who remains excluded.

8:30 PM

COPAN

2025 / 97 mins / Brazil / Director: Carine Wallauer / US Premiere

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At the heart of São Paulo, the iconic COPAN building, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, houses more than 5,000 residents across 120,000 square meters.

Director Carine Wallauer, herself a COPAN resident, paints a portrait of this remarkable building as a microcosm of Brazilian society, where questions of democracy, community, and power play out in everyday life.

As the story unfolds, the film takes us throughout COPAN, revealing its architecture through the people who live and work there and the many different spaces they inhabit. Rather than simply observing Niemeyer’s iconic building from the outside, we experience it from within and begin to understand how its design shapes daily life. By the end of the film, we have developed an intimate understanding of COPAN, not only as an architectural landmark, but as the complex, evolving community Niemeyer designed it to contain.

8:45 PM

The World in a Square

2026 / 72 mins / Italy and France / Director: Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine / US Premiere

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Iman, Peter, Johanne, Kala, and Elisa seem to have little in common at first glance. A political activist, an astronomer, a tattoo artist, a cook, and a babysitter rarely cross paths. What connects them is that they all live in Nørrebro, Denmark’s most socially and ethnically diverse neighbourhood. Over ten years ago, a park was built at its heart to bring the community together. Like a village square where the world converges, Superkilen quickly became both a landmark and a vibrant civic hub.

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