DAY 4 - ADFF:Toronto

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Subject: DAY 4 - ADFF:Toronto

Nov 5, 2022

Although is a beautiful day outside its also you last chance this year to see ADFF films in Toronto We have 9 programs starting at Noon and the last film starts at 9:15 Today there is something for everyone.

ADFF:Toronto Nov 5
9 Film Programs, 2 Panels, 1 live Q&A, and 2 virtual Q&A's
Click the links for more information, trailers, and showtimes and to purchase tickets.

FILM GUIDE | SCHEDULE

A World to Shape

2022 / 52 min / Netherlands

Director: Ton van Zantvoort

12:00PM - Buy Tickets

Nienke Hoogvliet and Dave Hakkens represent a new generation of contemporary Dutch Designers. This generation is acutely aware that raw materials are depleting, energy is scarce, and globalization is driving new forms of small-scale production. As makers, they don’t care about existing boundaries between art, design, and science.

Following the screening, Juliette Cook, architectural designer at MASS Design Group, and Stephanie Mah, Creative Director at Giaimo, will discuss the future of design as displayed in A World to Shape.

Alice Street

2020 / 70 min / United States

Director: Spencer Wilkinson

12:15PM - Buy Tickets

Alice Street is a compelling story of how two artists in Oakland come together as a community to adjust the process and pace of a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. Pancho Peskador, a Chilean studio painter, and Desi Mundo, a Chicago-born aerosol artist, form an unlikely partnership to tackle a four-story mural at a unique intersection where Chinese and Afro-Diasporic communities face the imminent threat of displacement and gentrification.

Builders, Housewives, and the Construction of Modern Athens

2021 / 87 min / Greece

Directors: Tassos Langis & Yiannis Gaitanidis

2:00PM - Buy Tickets

The city of Athens is so much more than the classical architecture that adorns it since there is a vibrant energy, buzz, and density that fills its streets and neighborhoods. Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens unveils a new perspective of the city, examining the most distinctive Athenian building type – the polykatoikía – and the city’s reconstruction by the anonymous lay builders and their housewives, who were the most unlikely “co-authors.”

Grethe Meyer – The Queen of Danish Design

2021 / 61 min / Denmark

Director: Isabel Bernadette Brammer

2:15PM - 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.

After the screening, Jeff Forrest, founder of Toronto-based multidisciplinary design practices STACKLAB and STACKABL, Eric Mutrie, Senior Editor at AZURE Magazine, and Jane Son, co-founder of Casson Hardware, will discuss Meyer's combination of humanist thinking and scientific methodology.

Under Tomorrow's Sky

2021 / 71 min / Netherlands

Director: Jan Louter

4:30PM - Buy Tickets

Renowned architect and urbanist Winy Maas is passionate about finding innovative solutions for the city of the future. From sincere discussions with clients to challenging design meetings and construction site visits in Asia, Under Tomorrow’s Sky provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into Maas’ professional life and explores how his designs can keep future cities compact and liveable.

Maija Isola – Master of Colour and Form

2021 / 90 min / Finland

Director: Leena Kilpeläinen

4:30PM - 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.

Robin Hood Gardens

2022 / 90 min / Germany

Directors: Thomas Beyer & Adrian Dorschner

6:45PM - Buy Tickets

Robin Hood Gardens is a story of complexity and contradiction in modern architecture. Built by British architects Alison & Peter Smithson, the controversial East-London council estate was not only unloved by its first residents in 1972 but also garnered divisive responses from internationally-renowned critics. Decades later, the brutalist building was demolished to pave the way for site redevelopment yet simultaneously exhibited at the Venice Biennale. In light of the estate’s 50th anniversary, the documentary offers surprising insights from residents and critics and presents a second look at the construction of the ostracized project.

Richard Henriquez: Building Stories

2022 / 30 min / Canada

Directors: Gavin Froome & Mike Bernard

Richard George Henriquez is a Canadian architect known for founding Henriquez & Todd with Robert Todd in 1969 which evolved over 50 years to become the Henriquez Partners Architects of today. Richard Henriquez: Building Stories explores his influences and focus on memory and history in his approach to his work.

Outside In

2022 / 40 min / Canada

Director: Danny Berish

What is happening to us as we remove ourselves from nature and place ourselves into high-rises of steel and glass? What are the physiological tolls this displacement takes? Outside In examines the hard science behind a movement of healthy home design called biophilia, which suggests that building healthier homes can affect positive changes in our blood pressure, heart rate and stress hormones.

7:00PM - Buy Tickets

Fashion Reimagined

2022 / 92 min / UK

Director: Becky Hutner

Time - Buy Tickets

Fashion Reimagined follows Amy Powney, designer of the London brand Mother of Pearl and the daughter of environmental activists who raised her on a remote eco-friendly homestead, as she sets out to create a collection that’s ethical and sustainable at every level, from fiber to finished garment.

Director Becky Hutner will be in person for a Q&A after the screening.

Bawa's Garden

2022 / 84 min / UK

Director: Clara Kraft Isono

Time - Buy Tickets

Bawa’s Garden is a road movie in search of the work of renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. The film follows a protagonist scouring the island for the ‘lost’ garden of Lunuganga. Finding the treasure might be the goal, yet her search is the catalyst for encounters with a series of characters and rarely visited buildings that reveal the story of Bawa’s life and work.

Director Clara Kraft Isono will join us for a virtual Q&A after the screening.

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