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September 9, 2026

Tickets are now on sale for ADFF:NY! This season, we’ve selected 11 feature-length films, with each film screening two or three times throughout the festival, giving you plenty of opportunities to see the films that interest you most. To see a list of all the films at ADFF:NY, click here.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll highlight a few films in each newsletter, sharing stories about the filmmakers, the subjects, and what makes these films special, going a little deeper than what you’ll find on the ADFF website.

Some film highlights from this year’s slate include bauhaus forever . and COPAN, both of which had their world premieres last year at Copenhagen’s prestigious documentary film festival, CPH:DOX. ADFF is thrilled to present the U.S. premieres of both films.

bauhaus forever. | Director Nico Weber | 2026 | 92 min | Germany

bauhaus forever. is a uniquely structured film about the birth of ideas and how their meaning and influence can grow over time. Although the Bauhaus existed for only 14 years, it became one of the most important cultural movements of the 20th century,

Director Nico Weber is a Berlin-based artist and filmmaker and the founder of the NOW Collective. Trained as a philosopher, she has worked as both a journalist and filmmaker. Her films explore philosophical, political, and cultural questions, and she has developed a distinctive, associative, and highly idiosyncratic cinematic language. Weber will be in New York for Q&As following each screening.

We are excited to welcome ADFF Alumni (Inside Poroa 2021) Nico back to ADFF with bauhaus forever. The new film takes a unique look at the legacy and continuing relevance of the Bauhaus through the construction of the new addition to the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin. Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and his firm, The Architects Collaborative, designed the original museum; Staab Architekten designed the current addition.

Through Weber’s lens, bauhaus forever. uses the evolving building to explore the ideas, contradictions, and enduring influence of the Bauhaus. It is a film about architecture, but also about something larger: how an idea conceived at a particular moment in history can take on new meanings and continue to shape culture generations later.

For more information about bauhaus forever., including ADFF screening times and tickets, click here.

COPAN | Director Carine Wallauer | 2025 | 97 min | Brazil

COPAN takes place inside Oscar Niemeyer’s iconic 1960s Copan building in the center of São Paulo. The director Carine Wallauer lived in the building for many years, giving her extraordinary access to the residents, managers, and workers who make this massive building function every day.

Through a series of intimate vignettes, we experience Copan from the perspective of the people who inhabit it. Rather than discussing the building from a traditional architectural point of view, Wallauer allows us to understand the architecture through daily life. By the end of the film, even if you have never visited Copan, you come away with the feeling that you have spent time there and gotten to know both the building.

The film feels especially poignant today because its story unfolds against two elections taking place at very different scales. Inside Copan, its roughly 5,000 residents are engaged in a heated election for the building’s administrator, as a long-standing officeholder resists change. Beyond its walls, Brazil is facing its own consequential presidential election between Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro.

COPAN is not only a powerful film about architecture and community, but also a timely reminder that the places and societies we inhabit are shaped by the people we choose to lead them, from the scale of a single building to that of an entire country. This fall, ADFF urges everyone to be engaged, be active, and VOTE!

For more information about COPAN, including ADFF screening times and tickets, click here.

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