Architecture and Design Film Festival: Vancouver will present an inspiring line-up of 20 documentary films and shorts from 13 countries at the Hollywood Theatre and VIFF Centre over four days in November.
Tickets for the festival start at $10 for students ($15 general admission, $13 VIFF members) and are now on sale.
Browse the films and trailers here.
Opening night will take place at the historic Art Deco Hollywood Theatre with a reception and screening of We Start With The Things We Find about New York City architecture firm LO-TEK’s pioneering and provocative work with shipping-container construction.
Through creative pursuit, LOT-EK has become a prophet of adaptive reuse, ecological construction, and unexpected beauty.
Principal architects Ada Tola and Giuseppe Lignano and filmmaker Thomas Piper will be in attendance for a post-film panel discussion.
Another highlight of the festival is the Vancouver premiere on Nov. 11th of Arthur Erickson’s Dyde House, co-presented by the Arthur Erickson Foundation and Western Living magazine.
Nestled in parkland near the University of Alberta, this “lost” masterpiece has been recently rediscovered and the fight for its future is underway.
Filmmakers Sticks & Stones Productions and other notable Erickson stewards will be in attendance for a panel discussion led by the film’s co-executive producer, architectural critic Trevor Boddy.
The film recently won an Alberta Film Award for best documentary over 30 minutes.
Another Canadian entry in this year’s festival (a co-production with Denmark) is Soviet Bus Stops, which follows Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig on his decades-long quest to document the fascinating design of rural bus stops across the former Soviet Union–humble acts of “poetry against all odds”–before they disappear.
Vancouver’s Urbanarium will be putting together a panel to follow the film on Friday Nov. 10th’s screening of Best in the World about Copenhagen, that will focus on Vancouver’s housing crisis.
According to ADFF Founder and Director Kyle Bergman, AIA, “When programming the festival, our goal is simply to present the best films possible.
This year, some themes emerged during the selection process.
These include: the impacts of climate change, a spotlight on architecture in Asia, women’s perspective in architecture, and a universal desire to understand one’s parents and by process, one’s own life.”
All screenings qualify for AIBC Continuing Education Credits for architects.
Film Schedule and ticket sales are now open.