7th BUDAPEST ARCHITECTURE FILM DAYS | GREETINGS

This March, KÉK – Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Center brings you the seventh edition of its architectural and urban film selection in Budapest. We launched the festival eight years ago to bring the most important questions of contemporary architecture, design and urbanism closer to the wider public – through the medium of film. Since then, we learned that the films we detected or received to our calls have more power than this: they reveal viewpoints, approaches and layers of the built environment that help us looking at the surrounding city in different ways. That help us to perceive the problems and shortcomings of urban life and explore the untapped opportunities of urban space, society and communities.

One of the most important objectives of the festival is to stimulate and empower us to take action for a better urban environment. The more than 30 fresh films of the festival will focus on forms of communal life and dwelling, collective creative processes done with your own hands, user-generated, adaptable cities and buildings, the heterotopias of our cities materializing in funfairs and theme parks, the infrastructure-monsters of the car-centered urban areas, as well as on the traces of Eastern Europe’s political transformations.