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 Festival	2007	Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth	South Africa	International	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 Architecture	2002	Prague	Czech Republic	International	www.denarchitektury.cz/index.php/program-2015/mesto/O:Film%20a%20architektura.html Held in November alongside with the annual World Architecture Day	1-5 October 2016
Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam	2004	Rotterdam	Netherlands	International	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 Days	2008	Budapest	Hungary	International	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 Festival	2013	Asturias	Spain	International	www.ficarq.es The Asturian International Cinema and Architecture Festival aim to show the link between architecture & cinema & technologies	6-12 July 2015
Beyond Media	1997	Florence	Italy	International	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 CAFx	2014	Copenhagen	Denmark	International	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 Festival	2007	Istanbul	Turkey	International	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 Festival	2010	Lund	Sweden	International	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 Festival	2013	Milano	Italy	International	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 & Architecture	1999	Annecy	France	International	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 - ARQFILMFEST	2011	Santiago de Chile	Chile	International	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 Festival	2009	Los Angeles and New York	United States	International	adfilmfest.com
Modesto Architecture Festival	2008	Modesto, California	United States	International	www.modestoarchfest.comHosted by the American Institute of Architects Sierra Valley and the Modesto Art Museum
CINETEKTON! Festival Internacional de Cine y Arquitectura	2014	Puebla	Mexico	International	cinetekton.com
Architecture + Design Film Festival	2010	Winnipeg and	Canada	International	adff.ca

Oceania

	Est.	City	Country	Type	Notes
Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival	2011	Auckland Wellington Christchurch Dunedin	New Zealand	International	www.rialto.co.nz/EventsFestivals/ReseneArchitectureDesignFilmFestival Held annually in May and June.

See also

• List of film festivals