List of architecture film festivals

This is a list of major architecture film festivals, sorted by continent.

Festivals

Africa

Est. City Country Type Notes
Architect Africa Film Festival2007Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth South AfricaInternational The Architect Africa Film Festival screens films about built environments or urban landscapes or anything to do with modern city life. The films vary in length from short films to feature length, they can be documentaries or fictional narratives.

Europe

Est. City Country Type Notes Date
Film and Architecture2002Prague Czech RepublicInternational www.denarchitektury.cz/index.php/program-2015/mesto/O:Film%20a%20architektura.html Held in November alongside with the annual World Architecture Day1-5 October 2016
Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam2004Rotterdam NetherlandsInternational affr.nl Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) is a biannual film festival screening films, shorts, animations and documentaries about architecture, urban development and city culture.7-11 October 2015
Budapest Architecture Film Days2008Budapest HungaryInternational filmnapok.kek.org.hu/en Held in each Spring, Budapest Architecture Film Days is an annual film festival to bring the most important questions of contemporary architecture, design and urbanism closer to the wider public through the medium of film.2-5 March 2017
Asturias International Cinema and Architecture Festival2013Asturias SpainInternational www.ficarq.es The Asturian International Cinema and Architecture Festival aim to show the link between architecture & cinema & technologies6-12 July 2015
Beyond Media1997Florence ItalyInternational www.beyondmedia.it Beyond Media was an international architecture film festival that took place in Florence and ran from 1997 to 2009.
Copenhagen Architecture Festival CAFx2014Copenhagen DenmarkInternational copenhagenarchitecturefestival.com/en/ Presents architecture, in documentaries and portrait films, and looks at the relationships between architectural and cinematic space in classic and contemporary cinema.March 2015,13-16 March 2016
Istanbul Architecture and Urban Films Festival2007Istanbul TurkeyInternational www.archfilmfest.org This festival aims seeking out and sponsoring films that are focused on architectural and urban subjects, encouraging new productions, and conveying unique examples of films to the audience. Held annually in October.2-9 October 2015
Lund International Architecture Film Festival2010Lund SwedenInternational www.archfilmlund.se The festival provides a platform for exploring contemporary and historical interconnections between architecture and film. Held annually in autumn.7-13 September 2015
UrbanEye Film Festival 2014 Bucharest Romania International www.urbaneye.ro UrbanEye is a platform for ideas based on the link between the city and cinema, opening the dialogue about the places we live in. 11-15 November 2015
Milano Design Film Festival2013Milano ItalyInternational www.milanodesignfilmfestival.com Milano Design Film Festival (MDFF) is an information platform, a meeting place, a place to experiment and to update one’s skills, characterised by the quality of its content and an innovative and effective ability to dialogue with a cross section of the public composed of architects, designers, enthusiasts but also by those who are simply curious in the city. Held annually in October.
Rencontres internationales d’Annecy Cinéma & Architecture1999Annecy FranceInternational www.maison-architecture-74.org/cinema-architecture.htm Held annually in November.19-20 NOV. 2015

South America

Est. City Country Type Notes Date
Arquitectura Film Festival Santiago - ARQFILMFEST2011Santiago de Chile ChileInternational arqfilmfest.cl Arquitectura Film Festival Santiago - ARQFILMFEST is the very-first Architecture and Film Festival in Chile and Latin America. ARQFILMFEST is a Biannual festival, its aim is celebrate the City, architecture, design and urban life through cinema. The festival provide a platform to promote its vision through Lectures, film workshop, urban installations and films.26-29 NOV. 2015

North America and the Caribbean

Est. City Country Type Notes
Architecture & Design Film Festival2009Los Angeles and New York United StatesInternational adfilmfest.com
Modesto Architecture Festival2008Modesto, California United StatesInternational www.modestoarchfest.comHosted by the American Institute of Architects Sierra Valley and the Modesto Art Museum
CINETEKTON! Festival Internacional de Cine y Arquitectura2014Puebla MexicoInternational cinetekton.com
Architecture + Design Film Festival2010Winnipeg and CanadaInternational adff.ca

Oceania

Est. City Country Type Notes
Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival2011Auckland Wellington Christchurch Dunedin New ZealandInternational www.rialto.co.nz/EventsFestivals/ReseneArchitectureDesignFilmFestival Held annually in May and June.

See also

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