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October 21, 2022

As we all know, we're living through some unsettling times. Lately, it feels more important than ever to do things that lift our spirits, even just for an hour or two in a cozy theater on a chilly fall day. We hope that the inspiring films and conversations we're bringing to you at upcoming ADFF festivals serve that purpose– engaging your mind with ideas that might just make our world a better place.

Tickets for ADFF:Toronto — presented by Eventscape and ADFF:Vancouver go on sale today. Come join us for entertainment and education about a broad range of topics. Each season, ADFF programmers do not seek out specific themes but rather, identify themes that emerge We've compiled some of the interesting connections in this season's slate of films below.

Films Featuring Women Changemakers

Amy Powney, designer of the London brand Mother of Pearl is featured in Fashion Reimagined. This is a powerful story of how one person with a vision can change an industry and make the world more sustainable. You will leave this film inspired!. Buy Tickets in Toronto | Buy Tickets in Vancouver

Nienke Hoogvliet is one of two dutch designers featured in A World to Shape. She is currently working on sustainable applications of seaweed, such as using it to make fabric and paint. Buy Tickets in Toronto | Buy Tickets in Vancouver ( with Outside In)

Grethe Meyer– The Queen of Danish Design follows architect Grethe Meyer. 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. Buy Tickets in Toronto | Buy Tickets in Vancouver ( with Richard Henriquez: Building Stories)

Finnish artist Maija Isola was one of the most important designers of Marimekko. Maija designed over 500 prints for the company, not only revolutionizing Finnish homes with her fabric designs but also extending the brand’s reach Maija Isola – Master of Colour and Form, documents an incredible life journey. Buy Tickets in Toronto | Buy Tickets in Vancouver

Films Directed By Women

Architect / filmmaker Clara Kraft Isono created a dreamy film Bawa's Garden about Geffory Bawa, a Sir Lankan architect who is as well known in Southeast Asia as Frank Lloyd Wright is known in the US. Buy Tickets in Toronto | Buy Tickets in Vancouver

Nastia Korkia's masterful film GES-2 premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. Korkia offers an up-close portrait of the transformation of this remarkable building in the center of Moscow from an old power plant to a cultural center. Buy Tickets in Toronto | Buy Tickets in Vancouver

Concrete Landscape

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Fashion Reimagined

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Grethe Meyer– The Queen of Danish Design

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Maija Isola– Master of Colour and Form

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Urban Design Films

Alice Street is a compelling story of artists in Oakland come together as a community to adjust the process and pace of a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. The film delivers a universal message, that the change process has a better chance of success when communities work together. Buy Tickets in Toronto | Buy Tickets in Vancouver

Under Tomorrow's Sky follows architect and urbanist Winy Maas, founding partner at MVRDV architects. Winy Maas is passionate about finding innovative solutions for the city of the future. He advocates for "high rises on a human scale." Buy Tickets in Toronto | Buy Tickets in Vancouver

Robin Hood Gardens

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Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens Tickets in Toronto | Buy Tickets in Vancouver

Environmental Films

What is happening to us as we remove ourselves from nature and place ourselves into high-rises? What are the physiological tolls this displacement takes? Outside In examines the science behind a movement of biophilia. Buy Tickets in Toronto ( with Richard Enriquez: Building Stories) | Buy Tickets in Vancouver ( with A World to Shape)

Fashion Reimagined Buy Tickets in Toronto | Buy Tickets in Vancouver

A World to Shape Buy Tickets in Toronto | Buy Tickets in Vancouver

Canadian Films

Building Bastille! The Tangled and Improbable Story of the Opera Bastille tells the comedic, dramatic, and tangled story of modern history’s most remarkable case of mistaken identity. Buy Tickets in Toronto | Buy Tickets in Vancouver

Richard Henriquez: Building Stories explores the life of a legendary Canadian architect and his distinct approach. Buy Tickets in Toronto ( with Outside In) | Buy Tickets in Vancouver (with Grethe Meyer– The Queen of Danish Design)