DAILY PROGRAM At Cinema Rossini

The Maloca of the Matses

by Samuel Bravo, 13'20" (Chile)

Vitic Dances

by Boris Bakal, 90' (Croatia)

For Sale

by Lidewij Deroo, 3'00" (Belgium)

2nd place

YES!

by Madli Lääne, 3'15" (Estonia)

The Sense of Tuning

by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, 96' (France)

When I Came To Your Door

by Antonio Paoletti, 10'32" (The Netherlands)

Rehab (from rehab) - Italian Premiere

By Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, 86' (France)

Climate change, geopolitical changes, new information and building technologies make it crucial to adapt our lifestyles, our cities, our logistics systems, our buildings to give us the possibility to live as communities today and in the future.

The shortage of energy, water scarcity, depleting natural resources, the increasing global population, and the continuous rise of people living in urban areas are all phenomena that will require our places to adapt to new needs, whether natural or social.

Cities have become particularly vulnerable to climate impacts, such as rising temperatures, flooding, and storms. Geopolitical changes contribute to the migration of people from one land to another. Borders are becoming increasingly impenetrable, and migratory flows are marked by disparities and inequalities. Rich countries close themselves off, poor countries sell themselves out, populations mix, and societies change.

Cities must change, they must become adaptable accordions and, through the latest technologies, create systems that improve the quality of life of citizens.

Smart cities use technologies that allow for the monitoring and management of various consumptions.

Adapting to all these changes requires collaboration between governments, communities and individuals. It requires investment in research and development, along with forward-looking policies that can create places that are sustainable today and adaptable to new needs tomorrow.

Over the decades, we have tried hard to fight this, we have created a world that, perhaps pretended, told us about sustainable spaces, places, societies and living together. In the last two years, all this has been overwhelmed.

We experience the effects of climate change on a daily basis, geopolitical upheavals are the order of the day, advanced technologies rewrite the way we work, travel and live on a daily basis.

In all this, will humanity, which has always had the ability to rethink itself, revolutionizing previous models and shaping nature to new needs, succeed in redesigning new models of sustainable living?

Is adaptation the new model of life?

The Craft of Life
By Christian Korsager, Marc Skafte Vaabengaard

The story of how the Craft Dormitory in Musicon was designed, from the earliest prototyping to the final project proposal. It’s also the story of the young apprentices - its future residents - and their lives and aspirations, and how they contributed to the design process in unprecedented ways.

Directors: Christian Korsager, Marc Skafte Vaabengaard
Writers: Nicolai Cohrt Mejlvang, Emil Spangenberg, Thomas Høyrup Christensen
Producers: Emil Spangenberg, Nicolai Cohrt Mejlvang, Thomas Høyrup Christensen, Christian Korsager
Runtime: 1 hour 11 minutes
Completion Date: March 1, 2024
Country of Origin: Denmark
Country of Filming:Denmark

Modernism, Inc.
By Jason Andrew Cohn

Modernism, Inc. tells the story of Eliot Noyes, the midcentury architect and designer who built the design programs for some of America’s most powerful postwar corporations. The film weaves Noyes’ story with the broader context of corporate America’s embrace of Modernism during the period of postwar economic expansion and culminates in the backlash against Noyes and his generation during the countercultural upheaval of the Vietnam era. The life and work of Eliot Noyes is a vehicle to explore the much larger story of the intersection of postwar business, technology and design, a story that continues to resonate in the contemporary context.

Director: Jason Andrew Cohn
Writer: Jason Andrew Cohn
Producer: Camille Servan-Schreiber
Runtime: 1 hour 18 minutes 4 seconds
Completion Date: June 15, 2023
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States

Rehab (from rehab)
By Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine

A sensitive and personal reflection that questions the way hospitals think spaces of care for the most vulnerable ones. Recounting her personal story as a young girl who spent her childhood in rehabilitation centres alongside her severely disabled father, the director confronts her traumatic memories with the exceptional experimentation developed at REHAB in Basel by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron.

Proposing highly specialized treatment for physical and neurological disabilities, this hospital has become a model of a kind thanks to its holistic approach of rehabilitation addressing with the same level of attention physical care and mental well- being.

Directors: Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine
Producer: Bêka & Partners
Runtime: 1 hour 26 minutes
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: Switzerland

The Sense of Tuning
By Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine

The Sense of Tuning is a portrait of the architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai, conceived like a sketch made on the fly, captured in the vibrancy of movement and of the moment.

Nothing of a hagiographic portrait giving a fixed image of the man and his work, the film explores the fragile, precious material of the architect’s sensibility with rare spontaneity, shedding light on how his perception of the emotion of space is nurtured.

Conceived as a performative cinematic experience, this film captures the alchemy of a day-long encounter between Bijoy Jain and Bêka & Lemoine – twelve hours of intense wandering, plunging us into the vital energy of the streets of Mumbai. Visual notes made in the intimacy of the studio, observations of informal tactics of the city and visits to production sites, the film reveals how closely Bijoy Jain’s work is tied to the city of Mumbai, providing endless resources and inspiration. A sensory film where gesture becomes the language of intuition.

Directors: Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine
Producer: Bêka & Partners
Runtime: 1 hour 36 minutes
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: India

Vitic Dances
By Boris Bakal

A film about the struggle to restore an architectural masterpiece by restoring the community of co-owners, revealing, layer by layer, all social relations, misunderstandings, conflicts, antagonisms, prejudices and hopes. The story of the building becomes the tale of planetary human misunderstanding.

Director: Boris Bakal
Producers: Boris Bakal, Adrijana Prugovečki, Tibor Keser, Ivan Kelava
Writers: Boris Bakal, Martin Semenčić
Runtime: 1 hour 29 minutes
Country of Origin: Croatia
Country of Filming: Croatia

414
By Serena Wen, Zhen Yu Hue

414 is a documentary short set in Hong Kong, a city where the dead and living fight for space. In this city, space – both size and location – directly correlates with costs, and discussions about final wishes are necessary but frequently overlooked and neglected. 414 unearths the cultural and societal hesitations surrounding discussions about funeral arrangements, types of burial and final resting places. The film invites viewers into contemplative conversations about the philosophical and practical wishes of the dead – past, present, and future.

Directors: Serena Wen, Zhen Yu Hue
Director of Photography: Choo Ching Leow
Producer: Seoh Jin Yoon
Runtime: 14 minutes 40 seconds
Completion Date: March 28, 2024
Country of Origin: Singapore
Country of Filming: Hong Kong

Aylesbury
By Joe Gilbert

Originally built to house over 7,000 people, the Aylesbury estate in South East London was one of largest housing projects in Europe when completed in the 1970s. Today it has fallen into rapid decline and perfectly encapsulates the growing housing crisis and problems caused.

Director & Producer: Joe Gilbert
Runtime: 7 minutes
Completion Date: December 9, 2016
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Bangladesh, architecture in the process
By Samuel Bravo

In Bangladesh, a very populous country, resources are scarce and the built environment is created by the people themselves. A group of architects is working through education to enable architectural processes among villagers.

Director, Writer & Producer: Samuel Bravo
Runtime: 13 minutes 30 seconds
Completion Date: January 2, 2024
Country of Origin: Chile
Country of Filming: Bangladesh

Beyond the White Cube
By Giulia Magno

What is the future of the museum? Visionary artists, architects, and curators—including Olafur Eliasson, Janne Sirén, and Shohei Shigematsu—join forces to reimagine the very essence of museums. Their collective vision aims to transform these historically elitist institutions into vibrant hubs of community engagement. The film chronicles their journey during the expansion project of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, capturing their efforts to redefine museums as inclusive arenas where visitors actively participate in shaping the narrative.

Writer & Director: Giulia Magno
Producer: Edouard Sterngold
Key Cast: Janne Sirén, Olafur Eliasson, Shohei Shigematsu, Sebastian Behmann, Holly E. Hughes, Cathleen Chaffee.
Editors: Giulia Magno, Timo Fritsche.
Runtime: 15 minutes
Completion Date: January 1, 2024
Country of Origin: Italy
Country of Filming: Germany, Italy, United States

Casa Ki-Ké
By Jim Stephenson & Gianni Botsford

Casa Ki-Ké in Costa Rica was designed by Gianni Botsford for his father, his 16,000 books, a grand piano, and his paintings. In the years up to, and following Keith Botsford's death, the award winning house had begun to fall into disrepair and so in 2019 Gianni returned to begin the process of cleaning, and restoring the house as well as recovering lost artworks, readying it for new owners.
This film uses footage shot by Gianni on his return, coupled with a reading of a letter he wrote to his father, posthumously reflecting on the process of designing the home.
“It is incredibly refreshing to see a film about a building during its life, rather than when it is new. This film tells the story of building in time, how it is affected by the weather, how it needs to be cared for, the connection between a person and a building designed for them, about building in the context of a community, how a local work force built it and then repairs it using timber from the garden.” Kate Darby

Directors: Jim Stephenson & Gianni Botsford
Runtime: 4 minutes 45 seconds
Completion Date: December 1, 2022
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom

End of season
By Leonor Martín

It's the summer of 2030. With the intention of taking a bath, Leonor returns to the water parks where she would go to play as a child. Severe water restrictions in Spain and Portugal have now reduced these spaces to ruins. As she traverses these grounds, she contemplates the idea of progress and its consequences on the territory.

Director, Writer: Leonor Martín
Producers: Leonor Martín, Aida Navarro
Key Cast: Leonor Martín
Music: Rafael Díaz
Sound editting: Víctor Saíz
Animation: Paula Jiménez

For Sale
By Lidewij Deroo

For sale explores the phenomenon of American-inspired suburban neighborhoods, where the pursuit of homeownership has become a defining measure of success. The dream of 2.5 kids, a dog, and a house with a fence symbolizes a high standard of living, independence and social status.
Set against the backdrop of a neighborhood in Galway, Ireland, the film follows a family’s day as they strive to attain their dream house. However, their pursuit exposes them to a range of consequences: long commutes, a growing sense of isolation in car-centric developments, increased carbon emissions and mounting financial pressures.
Is this imported version of the American Dream truly what we desire? As green spaces are swallowed up by housing projects and the pressure to own a house intensifies.
For sale challenges the notion that homeownership equates to happiness. It invites viewers to reflect on whether humanity can adapt and redesign sustainable models of living. Can we rethink our values and aspirations to prioritize not just personal success but also the well-being of our communities and the health of our planet?

Director, Writer, Producer: Lidewij Deroo

Heritage
By Umut ÇINKIR

We see a myriad of documentaries about the village institutes. ‘Heritage’, on the other hand, is an artwork that differs from these documentaries in that it provides insight into the spirit of the structures built during the ‘Village Institutes’ period. This documentary not only analyzes the structures constructed by young architects-to-be during the ‘Village Institutes’ period but also conveys their feelings to us.

Director, Writer, Producer, Key Cast: Umut ÇINKIR
Runtime: 10 minutes 39 seconds
Country of Origin: Turkey
Country of Filming: Turkey

Central Control Building
By Egemen Karakaya

Dialogue with the Earth - The building is located in Karapınar, the only region in Turkey with a desert climate. A 20-square-kilometer area in this region, which has become unsuitable for agriculture but holds significant energy potential due to its desert climate, is designated as an energy specialization area. Kalyon Energy has established a 1,350 MWp solar power plant in this region with the capacity to be the largest solar energy power plant in Europe. The operation of the plant is managed through the Central Control Building. One of the primary functions of the building is to provide a technological infrastructure for controlling the plant. However, beyond providing this infrastructure, the building is considered as an interface representing sustainable energy technologies. In the challenging geography of a desert, an interface representing new energy technologies in a flat topography extending to the horizon. This interface, an extension of the 3.2 million solar panels in the region, is positioned 40 meters away from the existing solar panels and in the same direction, in an area that will not cast shadows on the panels.

Director: Egemen Karakaya
Runtime: 2 minutes 35 seconds
Completion Date: January 18, 2024
Country of Origin: Turkey

Les Matérialistes
By Jonathan Lapalme & Meggan Collins

Combining documentary and science fiction with foresight, co-creation, and animation design, Les Matérialistes is a participatory futurism pilot project. This practical utopia transports us to 2050 to better understand what is necessary and possible to undertake collectively to achieve a transition to a truly circular economy.

Directors: Jonathan Lapalme & Meggan Collins
Central Creative Bureau: Jonathan Lapalme, Jean-Michel Bourgeois, Madelyn Capozzi, Meggan Collins, Arianna Smaron, Stephanne Choquette
Producers: Stephanne Choquette, Meggan Collins, Jonathan Lapalme
Writers: Madelyn Capozzi & Jonathan Lapalme
Art Directors: Arianna Smaron, Jean-Michel Bourgeois
Editor: Dominik Paré
Core Partners: RECYC-QUÉBEC, Les Interstices, Dark Matter Labs, Architecture Without Borders Quebec
Runtime: 11 minutes 51 seconds
Completion Date: June 1, 2024
C
Country of Filming: Canada

Mirage
By Amel Beslagic

Shortly after the referendum and declaration of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s independence from Yugoslavia, a war broke out, ultimately claiming around 100,000 lives.
Mirage is a film whose plot follows a resident of Kozarac, a small town in the municipality of Prijedor in the northwest of Bosnia and Herzegovina and entity of Republika Srpska, where over the last 30 years, the town has embraced narratives of the genocide that targeted its community. In addition, it is becoming a symbol of reconstruction and post-war prosperity, yet simultaneously standing for usurpation of the minority returnee population by the entity government.”
This partly monographic film centers on man as the backbone of two juxtaposing contexts within the same climate. It depicts the challenges that the modern man faces, in the roles of both a returnee and an architect.

Director, Writer, Producer, Key Cast: Amel Beslagic
Camera operators: Ervin Svabo Blazevic, Amel Beslagic

Country of origin: Bosnia and Herzegovina

No Building As Usual!
By Jim Stephenson, Nyima Murry

Climate change is the biggest challenge facing the building industry and the biggest challenge facing the next generation of architects. It’s clear that if we want to halt global heating we have to STOP building as usual.
'No Building As Usual' traces the construction of Nest House, a home for two elderly people in the British countryside that was designed collaboratively, built by a group of 12 young people from underrepresented backgrounds with little or no construction experience, and made of sustainable materials.
To mirror the process of constructing the house, the film crew who made 'No Building As Usual' are a group of young people also from underrepresented backgrounds, with guidance from Jim Stephenson and Nyima Murry.

Directors: Jim Stephenson, Nyima Murry
Runtime: 14 minutes 40 seconds
Completion Date: December 16, 2022
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Scenes from a Memory
By Tzu Yen Tseng

Two old houses, one south and one north, carry a century of history and memories of their owners.
An abandoned Giyōfū style building in a northern Taiwanese small town is covered by weeds and tree roots. Juin returns here following the words left behind by her father. Upon her arrival, traces of the White Terror period start to spread out, just like the branches that are breaking through the walls.
Deep in the mountains in southern Taiwan sits a Sanheyuan. It was the mansion of a royal family, but has now become a place where migrant workers from Southeast Asia stay. Zhen returns there, realizing that the liveliness and the fun-filled childhood memories can no longer be retrived.
Memories become fragmented scenery, drifting in the houses.

Director: TZU YEN TSENG
Runtime: 15 minutes
Country of Origin: Taiwan

Solace
By Birgitte Sigmundstad

The film explores architecture a a place for national memory. Solace starts in the Government quarter in Oslo as the Y – block named after its shape is being torn down. The demolishing is happening under protest. Not only did the building survive the terrorist attack on the 22. July 2011, it has murals by Picasso and stand as a symbol both of Norwegian social democracy and of the visionary architect Erling Viksjø who sought new methods and ways of implementing art in public buildings. As the building goes down the film takes us out to another famous historical time and the buildings that were made. The medieval stave churches are unique to Norway and carry history in both walls and artifacts. As the modernist building in the capital, they were also endangered at some point.

Director, Writer, Producer: Birgitte Sigmundstad
Cinematographer: Line Constance Lyngstadaas
Runtime: 15 minutes
Completion Date: October 20, 2024
Country of Origin: Norway
Country of Filming: Norway

Spa Sybarite
By Joshua Ashish Dawson

The World health organization states that “Although it is unequivocal that climate change affects human health, it remains challenging to accurately estimate the scale and impact of many climate-sensitive health risks. In the short- to medium-term, the health impacts of climate change will be determined mainly by the vulnerability of populations, their resilience to the current rate of climate change, and the extent and pace of adaptation.”
But what happens in the long term when adapting to climate change will simply get harder at which point our bodies are unable to cope with the impact of the environment’s hostility?
Capitalism works as intended when powerful actors profit off of human distress by providing market-based solutions to the social questions that it poses. à la adapting to the consequences of climate change rather than combating its causes.
With the wellness industry now being “one of the world’s fastest, most resilient markets,” outranking the pharmaceutical industry several times over, it’s easy to see wellness, not healthcare, becoming the clear & present winners of the climate change business providing "coping with climate-anxiety" an emerging market to capitalize off of. The International Finance Corporation posits that the Climate Investment Opportunities will total $23 Trillion in Emerging Markets by 2030.
When you have a total addressable market of the entire planet, the climate crisis provides a perfect excuse to make every business a climate business. Climate spas are an example of a near-future venture that weaponizes the declining health of the planet to profit from its impact on the body.

Director & Writer: Joshua Ashish Dawson
Producer: Ian McClellan
Key Cast: Kyla Dyan
Runtime: 3 minutes 3 seconds
Completion Date: August 31, 2022
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States

The Maloca of the Matsés
By Samuel Bravo

Short documentary movie about the construction and significance of the comunal house of the matsés people in the Amazon.

Director, Writer, Producer: Samuel Bravo
Key Cast: Abel Biná
Runtime: 13 minutes 20 seconds
Completion Date: May 18, 2024
Country of Origin: Chile
Country of Filming: Peru

The Nag's
By James Stephenson

How do you develop a much beloved indoor street market that has operated in Holloway since 1975, without displacing the community of traders that use it? This short film looks at the importance of the market place to the city of London, and the role it plays in the local community as it undergoes sensitive reworking by architects Office S&M.

Director: James Stephenson
Runtime: 4 minutes 8 seconds
Completion Date: December 1, 2023
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Voices to Inception
By BEcky BEamer

Voices of Inception is a poetic documentary short film that tells the story of a remarkable process and place that led to the creation and design of the Tougaloo Center for Racial Justice and Equity, a unique partnership between the Episcopal Church and the Jackson, Mississippi-based Tougaloo College, a Historically Black College. It follows the architectural design firm, Duvall Decker, as they deploy their twenty years of community engagement practice in the South to navigate the cultural connections and divides that are revealed among the various stakeholders. The film explores the challenges and opportunities of addressing justice and equity through architecture and the design process. Woven throughout are scenes and images of the past and present of the region, illustrating the significance of this project in this place. Overlapping audio ebbs and flows as new voices join the creative process of inception.

Director & Producer: BEcky BEamer
Assistant Director & Assistant Producer: Jori Erdman
Runtime: 12 minutes
Completion Date: June 15, 2024
Country of Origin: Norway
Country of Filming: United States

When I Came to your Door
By Antonio Paoletti

A woman searches for her partner among the ruins of a neighborhood in Addis Ababa, caught in the waves of forced evictions sweeping through the city’s informal settlements. “When I Came to Your Door” captures real images from one of the most recent demolitions that displace low-income communities to make way for large-scale urban projects in a rapidly expanding city. Through the woman’s love letter, the film lingers on what still stands after the demolition—abandoned objects, empty homes, and vividly colored doors—charging these ruins with emotion and new metaphoric meanings. Everyday objects are accompanied by domestic sounds recorded on-site to evoke the life that once thrived in these spaces. The film constructs a haunting portrait of a city where memories and social ties are erased by the relentless march of urban development, revealing its dehumanizing impact on the most vulnerable residents.

Director: Antonio Paoletti
Producer: Frederique van Andel
Key Cast: Meaza Fekadu Shinato
Music and sound: Francesco Cameli
Runtime: 10 minutes 32 seconds
Completion Date: August 30, 2024
Country of Origin: Netherlands
Country of Filming: Ethiopia

YES!
ByMadli Lääne

The corners, slopes, dead ends, and curves of Tallinn Cruise Terminal nudged us to ponder the dilemmas of the achievement society. Should we push ourselves into a box or shall we dare to be wrong?

Director, Writer: Madli Lääne
Producer: Johanna Maria Paulson
Key Cast: Raido Mägi
Runtime: 3 minutes 15 seconds
Completion Date: October 1, 2024
Country of Origin: Estonia
Country of Filming: Estonia