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Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam

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Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam
Next edition: 8–11 October 2015
LocationRotterdam, Netherlands
LanguageEnglish
Websitehttp://www.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. The architecture friendly city of Rotterdam is the natural host if the film festival. The initiative was formed in 2000, in preparation of the European Capital of Culture. The festival is characterized as a small, open minded and informal film festival for both architects and laymen. Next to classic feature films as The Fountainhead and Blade Runner or documentaries about architects as Louis Kahn or Frank Gehry, films are screened about the influence of media on the city, the depiction of cities in film and outstanding set design such as in Silent Running.

In 2009 the fifth film festival took place from October 29 to November 1, the 2011 edition took place from October 6 – 09 at LantarenVenster.