Opening Night AFFR
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9 okt20:00 - 00:00Europese premiere van Charlotte’s Castle (Jamie Kastner, 2022)TR25 Schouwburg, RotterdamGrote Zaal
English
AFFR is back at the Schouwburg for the festival's Opening Night, with the European premiere of Charlotte’s Castle (Jamie Kastner, 2022), a dryly comical documentary about housing, redevelopment, activism, and fishbone parquets. The setting is Toronto, the story is just as relevant to Rotterdam - and has a Dutch twist.
A group of eccentric residents occupy the historical Spadina Gardens apartment building in Toronto. They seem to have been living there forever and share a deep connection with the building. Their reality is shattered when they hear that a Dutch developer has bought Spadina Gardens and plans to renovate it, replacing its historical features with black industrial frames and fishbone parquet floors. An alliance is formed with Charlotte at the helm, to lead a battle against time to list the building as a monument in order to protect it. An entertaining, yet grounded commentary on the ubiquitous, speculation-driven, generic redevelopments that are flattening our cities.
About AFFR
AFFR - the largest film festival about architecture and the city - returns between 9 - 15 October, with five days of films about the one thing that touches everyone’s life: the man-made world we live in.
For its 2024 edition, the festival is once again presenting a broad selection of films and documentaries, from architect’s portraits to cult classics, from shorts on city life to documentaries about wider social issues. Films at AFFR deal with topics that touch everyone’s life: the housing crisis, tourism, migration, climate change - the entire man-made world. In the process, the festival shows unfamiliar angles and stories, offering new perspectives.
This year’s event takes place at the Schouwburg and LantarenVenster – and at various venues in Rotterdam and elsewhere throughout the year.
The full AFFR program will be announced on 17 September, which is also the start of ticket sales; keep an eye out on www.affr.nl for more info.