08.03.2010

Soon in Amsterdam

Screening of ‘an opportunity to build’ (1985) by Rob Klaasman and Maarten Kloos.

06.03.2010

And the winner is….

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Nominated for the best bedroom: Sherlock Holmes

06.02.2010

The Complete Metropolis

Only 200 meters missing, as the newspaper announced. In 2008 the only (almost) complete reel of Fritz Langs’ Metropolis was found. Friday Febrary 12 live on Arte TV. Read more »

03.02.2010

Infinite Space on TV

02.02.2010

Oscar nomination for Logorama

Yes, we recognize the beauties, because the short animation film Logorama we screened at our festival is nominated for an Academy Award! We keep our fingers crossed for the people of H5, especially Nicolas Schmerkin.

14.01.2010

Megunica in Amsterdam

Een van de populairdere films van het AFFR 2009 was Megunica van Lorenzo Fonda (2008) over de animatie/graffitti artiest Blu. De film is zelden te zien, dus als je hem gemist hebt op ons festival, dan een hele week herkansing bij onze vrienden van SmartProjectSpace: vertoningen van 14-1 tot en met 31-1.

12.12.2009

Film on TV

. Sunday December 13 at 18.25 on Dutch TV Ned.2: the TV premiere of Oscar Niemeyer – La vida es un sopro, one of the hits of AFFR 2009.

23.11.2009

Films on DVD?

We receive many questions about the availability of films screened at AFFR2009, for public screenings or for private DVD purchases.

01.11.2009

Garbage Warrior

So far, the movie Garbage Warrior (Oliver Hodge, 2007) is one of the audience favorite. The film runs Sunday, November 1 again.

31.10.2009

Snakebit

The secret preview

by Rita Brons

Snakebit is made for American public television, but has not been aired. AFFR is therefore even more proud that the movie is to prepremiere in the Netherlands. The movie is eagerly awaited for months by many fans. Sam Wainwright Douglas, the director is one of the special guests on the AFFR.

Thank you!

Foundation laid for an international platform for architecture and film festivals.

Foundation laid for international platform for architectural and film festivals

The fifth edition of the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) is over… This year the event has put itself for good on the international cultural map. Programming 120 movies, city tours and talk shows, the festival managed to triple its visitors compared to previous editions. This goal – to promote interest in architecture – was largely achieved. This weekend was also the foundation for close cooperation with ten film festivals architecture at European and even world level.

From October 29 to November 1 AFFR screened films in which architecture and the city play the leading role. There was a lively festival atmosphere in the attractive foyer of cinema Cinerama: both architectural fanatics as students and filmlovers met in the foyer, drew circles in their program magazines and talked about the films with a beer in between screenings. A full house, for both the blockbusters and lesser-known films, often selling out completely. The big hits of the festival – the ones that were chock full of visitors and judged very positively – were Infinite Space, Oscar Niemeyer and the world premiere of Herman Hertzberger: Ik zag ruimte (2009, Kees Hin). Infinite Space, a film about the glamorous buildings of the American architect John Lautner, was part of a special selection of American films, including the avant premiere of Snakebit and the opening movie Visual Acoustics. The city tours were very successful. The Rotterdam Planning Disasters biketour was particularly of a lot of interest. The bicycle guides showed the participants ‘planning disasters’ of Rotterdam. From the ‘Blunderput’ (blooperwell) the Blaakse Bos, the Peperklip to the Essalam Mosque.

Cooperation at international level

This weekend the AFFR welcomed over 30 international guests. Filmmakers and architects, but also the organizers of film festivals worldwide architecture got together. A seminar was initiated by AFFR on the opportunities to reinforce each other. With success, because AFFR 2009 is the starting year in which architecture festivals join hands at the international level to work together.