| November 9, 2020
ADFF:2020 starts next week. For this year’s festival, we’ve previewed hundreds of films from around the world and the ones we've selected represent 13 countries - Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, UK and USA.
This year’s online festival will feature 15 full-length film programs, five which are North American premieres. Additionally, there will be two short-film programs, each with five short films. Plus, we’ve lined up over 45 guest speakers and most of the film programs will include a special introduction with Q&As following the films.
The festival is available for online viewing to anybody in the US and Canada starting November 19th at 5:00 pm ET through December 3, 11:59 pm ET. Perfect for viewing over the Thanksgiving holiday!
Watch them on your computer or tablet, or with Apple TV or Roku. We suggest that you watch them on the largest screen possible.
Tickets are on sale now!
General admission tickets: $10
Fistful (5 tickets): $40
All-access pass (allows you to watch each film one time): $110
Student discounts are available to those with an active student ID.Gift Certificates are also available so your friends and family within the US and Canada can share in the experience. |
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Nicknamed “Architect to the Stars,” the African-American architect Paul R. Williams had a life story that could have been dreamed up by a Hollywood screenwriter. Orphaned at the age of four, Williams grew up to build mansions for movie stars and millionaires in Southern California. From the early 1920s until his retirement 50 years later, Williams was one of the most successful architects in the country. His list of residential clients included Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. And his name is associated with architectural icons like the Beverly Hills Hotel, the original MCA Headquarters Building and LAX Airport. But even at the height of his career Paul Williams wasn’t always welcome in the restaurants and hotels he designed or the neighborhoods where he built homes, because of his race. Hollywood’s Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story tells the compelling, but little-known story of how he used his talent and perseverance to beat the odds and create a body of work that can be found from coast to coast. Williams was the first African-American member of the American Institute of Architects.
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Saving North is the story of a struggle for human and cultural survival in the mysterious and insular world of the Russian North. An outsider from England, photographer Richard Davies enters this mysterious and vast region of the world with the hope of documenting both the glory and the tragic demise of its rapidly disappearing Wooden Churches. As Davies meets and becomes friends with some of his Russian photo subjects, he finds himself getting emotionally involved with their struggle. He decides to put down his camera and get involved with church restoration.
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| | | | The Whole World
2020 / 78 min / Argentina
Director: Sebastian Martinez North American Premiere
Language: Spanish English subtitles
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Though Utopian communities rarely live up to their promise, their bold attempt by remarkable people is a story worth telling. Francisco Piria was such a person. A Urugyuan businessman and son of Italian immigrants, Francisco was a politician, a tourist entrepreneur, a knight, a master of the great esoteric science—alchemical symbolism, and author of the first utopian novel of Uruguay. This film is the fascinating story of the building of Piriápolis, one of Uruguay’s great beach resorts, and the lifelong effort of this great pioneer, entrepreneur and visionary.
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| | | | Short Films Program I: Inspired by Mentors
This program honors the importance of learning from those who inspire us to be our best. The films include Pritzker Prize winners like Zaha Hadid and Glenn Murcutt to lessor-known, but equally important innovators, as seen through the lens of the filmmakers.
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| Dear Esther
2019 / 7:28 min / USA
Director: Nora Stone
In 1989, a woman writes a letter to her mentor. She reminisces about a life-changing campaign they spearheaded to save a historic home, twenty years prior.
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| Zaha Hadid: Words by Eva Jiřičná
2020 / 9:30 min / UK
Directors: Laura Mark and Jim Stephenson
Zaha Hadid was a visionary. When she passed away in 2016 she left behind a legacy of built and imagined architecture that is among the most recognizable and influential in the world.
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| LionHeart: Architecture, Poetry, Healing
2020 / 5 min / UK
Director: Jim Stephenson
Poet Rhael Cape, aka LionHeart, is a poet and a spoken-word performer. Over time, and working closely with architects and those who inhabit their buildings, his work explores architecture's and poetry's relationship around emotional inhabitance, and its connection to memory and mental health in the city.
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| Dagmar Richter: Influencing Great Architecture
2020 / 10:22 min / USA
Director: Umay Gunes Kurtulan
Architect Dagmar Richter influences new generations of architects by setting a bold and fearless example of versatility within architecture, through a feminist outlook.
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| Glenn Murcutt Master Class
2014 / 38:45 min / Australia
Director: Catherine Hunter
The film follows one of Glenn Murcutt's famous masterclass's that attracts architects from around the world for a 2 week intensive studio class. Other instructors include Australian architects Peter Stutchbury and Richard Leplastrier. |
| | | | | | Short Films Program II: Inspired by Materials
This program features the material choices by architects and designers as the central character of each film. The range of films is broad and includes: the last operating basalt quarry in Spain that supplied stone to Gaudi; the transformation of a natural disaster in Italy into the artistic expression of a theatrical stage set; a gathering place in Montana designed by a celebrated architect that evokes the interior layers of a tree; and a memorial built on the site of a sacred and historical space in Arkansas.
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| Picapedrers
2020 / 21 min / Spain
Director: Kike Barberà, Oscar Blasco, Sergi Carulla
In the small town of Castellfollit de la Roca in Catalonia, Spain is the last active basalt quarry in the country that still supplies stone. Picapedrers is a journey through these stone landscapes, the people who work there, and the architects who hope to use this beautiful, natural material.
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| Xylem, the Heart of the Tree
2020 / 10 min / USA
Director: Emily Rund
Named to evoke the vital internal layers of a tree’s living structure, Xylem, designed by celebrated architect Francis Kéré, is a place where visitors may gather to converse, contemplate the views of the aspen and cottonwood trees near the bank of the creek, or sit and meditate in solitude. Xylem is part of the Tippet Rise Art Center located in Fishtail, Montana which celebrates the concept that art, music, architecture and nature are inextricably linked in the human experience, each making the others more powerful.
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| Troiane
2020 / 16 mins / Italy
Director: Stefano Santamato
In one single night in October 2018, rain and wind tore down 14 million trees, transforming a lush mountain landscape in northern Italy into an apocalyptic ground, with environmental consequences that will affect life in the area for many decades to come. In Carnia, one of the worst hit areas, 400 of those trunks were retrieved, and from there traveled to Syracuse, at the opposite end of Italy, where on a Greek theater stage they gained their
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| Inspired Architecture: Permanent Camping
2020 / 15 min / Australia
Director: Jim Lounsbury
Conceived as a retreat for one or two people, the building has a minimal 3x3m footprint to provide shelter. Located on a remote, pristine mountain on a sheep station outside Mudgee, NSW, Australia, it's situated at the edge of a ridge surrounded by large granite boulders and ancient dead trees, with panoramic views for hundreds of miles to the horizon.
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| Of Concrete and Skin: The Story of the Elaine Massacre Memorial
2020 / 12:16 min / USA
Director: Nolan Dean
Of Concrete and Skin tells the story of the design, construction, and significance of The Elaine Massacre Memorial in Helena, Arkansas — a memorial dedicated to the victims of one of the deadliest and most forgotten racial conflicts in United States history.
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