DAY 3 - ADFF:Toronto

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Nov 4, 2022

We had an excellent second day of screenings at ADFF:Toronto — presented by Eventscape. (See images below.)

Tonight, audiences can enjoy four films along with a panel following the 6:30 screening of Building Bastille. There are also two special virtual Q&As. Danish director Isabel Bernadette Brammer will speak about her film Grethe Meyer – The Queen of Danish Design. Nastia Korkia, the Russian Director of GES-2, will share an important personal statement on her concerns about the war in Ukraine before the screening, and a Q&A after the screening.

ADFF:Toronto Nov 4
4 Film Programs, 2 Panels
Click the links for more information, trailers, showtimes, and to purchase tickets.

FILM GUIDE | SCHEDULE

Building Bastille! The Tangled and Improbable Story of the Opera Bastille

2021 / 76 min / Canada

Director: Leif Kaldor

6:30 - Buy Tickets

A half-billion dollar project, a crushing architectural challenge, an impossible deadline, two warring political titans, and a blind competition. What could go wrong? Building Bastille! is set in 1982 France when the new socialist President Mitterrand opens a blind competition to build an opera at the site of the notorious Bastille Prison. The jury selects the best design, a drawing that looks like the hand of prominent American architect Richard Meier but is a submission from an unknown and inexperienced Canadian architect Carlos Ott.

Before the feature film, we will screen a short film about the Buddy Guy Performance Center in Lubbock, Texas.

After the screening, Alex Bozikovic, Architecture Critic at The Globe and Mail, will speak with three partners at Office Ou– Nicolas Koff, Sebastian Bartnicki, and Uros Novakovic– about blind competitions and the impacts on a young architectural firm.

Maija Isola– Master of Colour and Form

2021 / 90 min / Finland

Director: Leena Kilpeläinen

6:45 - Buy Tickets

Finnish artist Maija Isola was one of the first designers of Marimekko – the Finnish design brand known for its vibrant and original prints and colors worldwide. Having designed over 500 prints during her 38-year tenure at the company, Maija not only revolutionized Finnish homes in the 1950s and 60s with her fabric designs but also extended the brand’s reach overseas to cities like New York and Tokyo. The film traces the footsteps of Maija, an avid traveler who has lived in various cities and countries throughout her life. Presented through archive material, new fictive footage, animations, and film clips, the film explores the artist’s life, sources of inspiration, legacy, and the secret behind the success of her nature-inspired fabrics.

GES-2

2021 / 77 min / Russian Federation

Director: Nastia Korkia

9:00 - Buy Tickets

In 2014, the Renzo Piano Building Workshop was tasked by V–A–C Foundation to transform GES-2, a 20,000 sq meter former power plant in Moscow, into a new, global cultural institution providing cultural energy for all. With intimate access to workers, builders, project supervisors, and architects, the director offers an up-close portrait of the transformation of this remarkable building into a cultural center. Interlacing the events in an unconventional and non-chronological order, the film provides a dose of humor on an often unexplored topic in design.

Before the screening, director Nastia Korkia will join us with a pre-recorded statement of solidarity with the people of Ukraine. After the film, there will be a virtual Q&A.

Grethe Meyer – The Queen of Danish Design

2021 / 61 min / Denmark

Director: Isabel Bernadette Brammer

9:15 - Buy Tickets

Globally renowned for its simplicity, functionality, and longevity, Danish design rose to popularity during the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of Danish Design in the 1940s and 1950s. Grethe Meyer – The Queen of Danish Design narrates the story of Grethe Meyer – one of the few pioneering women who, despite the enormous consequences, created classic designs such as the Royal Copenhagen Blue Edge set. Combining humanist thinking with an almost scientific methodology, Meyer analyzed her way into all her designs – working, reworking, and testing – in a man’s world.

After the film, we will screen a pre-recorded Q&A with director Isabel Bernadette Brammer.

Highlights from Nov 3...