Join Grace Farms and Architecture and Design Film Festival for a weekend of films exploring the built environment’s power to enrich our human experience and to remind us of our capacity to create positive change in the world.

Our opening night premiere of Søren Pihlmann: Make Materials Matter will be followed by a dialogue between Pihlmann and Grace Farms CEO and Founder Sharon Prince, alongside Kyle Bergman, Festival Director & Founder of Architecture & Design Film Festival, and Toshihiro Oki, Grace Farms Architecture Advisor.

On Saturday, enjoy a full day of films and curated activities amplifying our longstanding belief that architecture moves us and inspires us to address the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time.

This year’s films have been curated by co-Festival Directors Kyle Bergman and Toshihiro Oki. The special partnership between the two organizations is grounded in the spirit of bringing the worlds of films, architecture and community together in a setting for creating new discussions and outcomes.

Special thanks to New York Botanical Garden.

Film Schedules

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Friday, January 30
Søren Pihlmann: Make Materials Matter (6 – 8 pm)
54 min | Directors: Marc-Christoph Wagner and Simon Weyhe
Featuring the premiere of Dancing Trees — a short film about new seating in Grace Farms’ Plaza designed by Kazuyo Sejima & Associates for our 10-Year Celebration — followed by a screening of Søren Pihlmann: Make Materials Matter and a conversation about the film with Søren Pihlmann and Grace Farms CEO & Founder Sharon Prince.

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Saturday, January 31
Bawa’s Garden (10:45 am – 12:30 pm)
89 min | Director: Clara Kraft Isono
Followed by a Q&A with Director Clara Kraft Isono and Kyle Bergman, ADFF Founder and Director

If You Build It (11 am – 12:30 pm)
85 min | Director: Patrick Creadon

Gateways to New York (11:15 am – 12:45 pm)
88 min | Director: Martin Witz

James Hubbell: Between Heaven and Earth (1:15 – 2:30 pm)
66 min | Directors: Marianne Gerdes & Michael Gerdes
Followed by a Q&A with Director Marianne Gerdes, Drew Hubbell, Architect, Principal of Hubbell & Hubbell Architects, and Kyle Bergman, ADFF Founder and Director

Green Over Gray: Emilio Ambasz (1:30 – 2:45 pm)
55 min | Directors: Francesca Molteni & Mattia Colombo
Followed by a Q&A with Todd Forrest, Vice President for Horticulture and Living Collections at the New York Botanical Garden and Toshihiro Oki, Grace Farms Architecture Advisor

Integral Man (1:45 – 2:50 pm)
62 min | Director: Joseph Clement

The Promise. Architect BV Doshi (3:15 – 4:45 pm)
90 min | Director: Jan Schmidt-Garre

Building on the Edge (3:30 – 5 pm)
73 min | Directors: Mike Scalisi & Bruce Borowsky
Followed by a Q&A with Erick Sommerfeld, Director of Graduate Studies at University of Colorado, Kyle Bergman, ADFF Founder and Director, and Toshihiro Oki, Grace Farms Architecture Advisor

Glen Murcutt: Spirit of Place (3:45 – 4:45 pm)
59 min | Director: Catherine Hunter

Building Bastille! The Tangled and Improbable Story of the Opera Bastille (6 – 7:15 pm)
76 min | Director: Leif Kaldor

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AIA & SARA CES 1 LU Approved.

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