Subject: ADFF 2025/26 Festival Season Wraps — More Screenings Ahead
ADFF 2025/26 Festival Season Wraps — More Screenings Ahead
February 27th, 2026 at 12:01 pm EDTView onlineFebruary 27, 2026 We’ve just wrapped up the 2025/26 ADFF festival season. While the main season has concluded, we’ll continue to host special screenings and events in the coming months, leading up to the launch of our 2026/27 season ...
Q&As Not To Be Missed
February 17th, 2026 at 6:03 pm EDTView onlineFebruary 17, 2026 ADFF:Chicago starts this Thursday with opening night at the Chicago Cultural Center (sold out), followed by three days of screenings at the Gene Siskel Film Center. As always, we have an amazing lineup of speakers. Tick ...
2026/27 Film Submission Opens & Grace Farms Highlights
February 9th, 2026 at 1:42 pm EDTView onlineFebruary 9, 2026Call For Films It's that time of year! ADFF is accepting submissions for our 2026/27 season. As always, we're looking for architecture and design stories that are also fundamentally human stories. We welcome it all—from ...
ADFF:Chicago Films
February 4th, 2026 at 4:13 pm EDTView onlineFebruary 4, 2026 We're gearing up for ADFF's final festival of the season. This year, the iconic Chicago Cultural Center will host ADFF:Chicago's opening night. Then we'll move to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Gene Siskel ...
Films Bring Us in From the Cold
January 27th, 2026 at 3:40 pm EDTView onlineJanuary 27, 2026 No snow days for the team at ADFF! Just this week, we've got a festival and two special screenings. Then we head to Chicago for our final festival of the 2025/26 season. Our Wednesday screening of Prickly Mountain and My ...
Final Festivals of the Season
January 21st, 2026 at 8:27 pm EDTView onlineJanuary 21, 2026 Humanity in Architecture is our annual festival at the beautiful Grace Farms in New Canaan, CT. It is unique in our festival schedule as we draw from all past ADFF festivals to curate a selection of films around a theme. ...
A New Year at ADFF
January 14th, 2026 at 2:11 pm EDTView onlineJanuary 14, 2026 As 2026 gets underway, we’re excited to share what’s happening at ADFF this winter—from our time in the global south to our festivals in New Canaan and Chicago, plus some special one-night screenings closer to home ...
Our Biggest Event of the Year
December 30th, 2025 at 4:23 pm EDTView onlineDecember 30, 2026 As many of us wind down at the end of the year, our Mumbai contingent is revving up for ADFF's biggest festival of the season. Though we love all our festivals equally, Mumbai is undeniably our most complex—27 films ( ...
The Inflection Point
December 18th, 2025 at 3:48 pm EDTView onlineDecember 18, 2025 The year may be winding down, but ADFF is only halfway through our season. In January, we have our second edition of ADFF:Mumbai, a special screening in Boston, and Humanity in Architecture at Grace Farms. Then in Febru ...
ADFF 2025 in Pictures
November 24th, 2025 at 9:39 am EDTView onlineNovember 24, 2025 We just wrapped up four festivals in six weeks. We could tell you all about them, but instead we thought we'd show you.ADFF:NY October 14-18Design Matters host Debbie Millman and Auctioneer Appraiser Nicholas LowryChang ...