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Subject: ADFF:Toronto - Day 4

November 4, 2023

Are you ready for the final day of ADFF:Toronto? Our Saturday programming is jam-packed with 7 film programs (6 Canadian premieres) with 2 panels and 2 Q&As. You especially won't want to miss our closing night screening of We Start With the Things We Find.

ADFF:TORONTO November 4

7 Film Programs

FILM GUIDE | SCHEDULE | TICKETS

12:45 PM - Buy Tickets

Best in the World (Canadian Premiere)

2022 / 56 min / Denmark

Director: Hans Christian Post

Best in the World offers a closer look at the Danish capital’s journey from an industrial city on the brink of bankruptcy to the transformed Copenhagen of today. Celebrated writer and filmmaker Hans Christian Post takes stock of the cost of this transformation, examining inequity within the city’s borders and in the surrounding countryside.

Following the screening will be a panel discussion with Assistant Professor Karen Kubey and Urban Planner Chiyi Tam, moderated by Stefan Novakovic, Senior Editor of Azure.

12:45 PM - Buy Tickets

The Promise: Architect B.V. Doshi (Canadian Premiere)

2023 / 90 min / Germany

Director: Jan Schmidt-Garre

Balkrishna Doshi, one of India’s most influential 20th-century architects, passed away this year at 95 years old. The Promise provides audiences with the gift of getting to know Doshi, a soft-spoken humanist with distinctly modern designs.

2:45 PM - Buy Tickets

The Power of Utopia – Living with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh (Canadian Premiere)

2023 / 84 min / Switzerland

Directors: Karin Bucher and Thomas Karrer

When designing Chandigarh, Le Corbusier imagined a just city that would allow for harmonious interaction between its residents and the natural environment. His utopic vision for the city came into being 70 years ago at a time of unrest, resettlement, and the partition of India. For some, it represented progress and a newly emerged democracy, but it remains unclear if Corbusier’s design was a success or a failure.

Following the screening will be a panel discussion with Architect Varun-Preet Singh, moderated by Joël León Danis of TSA.

3:15 PM - Buy Tickets

Skin of Glass (Canadian Premiere)

2023 / 90 min / United States

Director: Denise Zmekhol

When director Denise Zmekhol revisits the architectural masterpiece of her late father, a modernist skyscraper in São Paulo, Brazil, she discovers it is occupied by hundreds of unhoused people. Through the stories of people with a passionate connection to her father’s work, Zmekhol helps us understand the building as a reflection of Brazil’s political and economic turmoil over the last half-century.

5:15 PM - Buy Tickets

My Architect (20th Anniversary)

2004 / 116 min / United States

Director: Nathaniel Kahn

Director Nathaniel Kahn takes us on a heartbreaking and humorous journey of his attempts to reconnect with his deceased father, renowned architect Louis I. Kahn. In a documentary with all the emotional impact of a dramatic feature film,

Following the screening will be a Q&A with Director Nathaniel Kahn, moderated by Mary Wiens of CBC's Metro Morning.

5:30 PM - Buy Tickets

TerraForma (Canadian Premiere)

2023 / 60 min / Ireland

Directors: Laurence Durkin and Kevin Brennan

House of Adaptation (Canadian Premiere)

2023 / 42 min / Netherlands

Director: Onur Can Tepe

We've designed our way into a climate crisis, and now we have to design our way out. TerraForma focuses on the remote desert island of Ascension, which was engineered into a tropical paradise through the process of 'terraforming'. House of Adaptation takes viewers on a journey through the minds of the people who gave life to a climate-adaptive building that will float with rising sea levels.

8:15 PM - Buy Tickets

We Start With The Things We Find (Canadian Premiere)

2023 / 81 min / USA

Director: Tom Piper

LOT-EK, the visionary and beloved architecture studio of Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, has reimagined the shipping container for over 30 years. Through creative pursuit, LOT-EK has become a prophet of adaptive reuse, ecological construction, and unexpected beauty.

Following the screening will be a Q&A with LOT-EK Architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano and Director Tom Piper, moderated by filmmaker Gary Hustwit.

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