UrbanEye Film Festival takes place November 6-10, 2019 Focus 6th edition - Nature and the City

17.10.2019

UrbanEye Film Festival takes place November 6-10, 2019

Focus sixth edition - Nature and the City

This year's sixth edition of the UrbanEye Film Festival takes place from November 6 to 10 at Cinema Elvire Popesco and ArCub, with the support of Expo Arte. In the spotlight are films and events that bring the relationship between the city and nature into the spotlight. How does nature influence the built environment? How do humans transform nature and landscape? How do people live in extreme conditions and how do we bring nature into urban environments? These are some of the questions raised by the documentary films and related events of the festival.

Most of the selected films will be national premieres, addressing different facets of how the urban environment and nature influence each other. Viewers are invited to meditate on how man has shaped nature (in "Anthropocene: The Human Epoch" and "Zhalanash - Empty Shore"), to see how concepts of dwelling and home are defined in different parts of the world (in "The Human Shelter"), and to travel from Russia's most polluted city (in "Melting Souls") to life in harsh conditions in the Himalayas, where access to education means enormous sacrifices for small communities (in "The Children of the Snow Land").

A special section of the festival, present every year, is Portraits of Architects. This year there will be documentaries: "60 Elephants" about Yona Friedman, "Renzo Piano, The Architect of Light" and "Renzo Piano, The Power of the Archive", plus "City Dreamers", a Canadian film about four remarkable female architects. The documentary "City Dreamers" features interviews with them and their stories, their early careers, the challenges they faced and above all their motivation to innovate in the field, through bold projects and advocacy for responsible urban planning.

The festival will also feature documentaries about how political regime change is reflected in architecture, cities and people's lives. Viewers can watch "Palace for the People", which tells the story of five buildings representative of the socialist era, "Timebox", a personal archive filmed on film in Iasi over 40 years, and "Warsaw: A City Divided", about the construction of the Warsaw ghetto, seen from both sides of the wall and the legacy it left behind.

For the first time, UrbanEye is proposing joint screenings with fARAD, the Documentary Film Festival, recently held in Arad. Under the theme "Map and Territories, some of the fARAD 6 titles will be screened at this edition of the UrbanEye Film Festival. The films will be complemented by a debate on the city as a cinematic subject, together with Zeppelin Architecture Magazine and Expo Arte Cultural Center.

For more details visit:

• https://urbaneye.ro/
• https://www.facebook.com/UrbanEyeFilmFestival

The UrbanEye Film Festival is a project of ARTA in Dialogue, a cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund and the Romanian Order of Architects, from the stamp of architecture.

Partners: Institut Français de Bucarest, Velux, Polish Institute in Bucharest, Bucharest City Hall through Expo Arte Cultural Center.

Media partners: Radio Romania Cultural, RFI Romania, Revista Arhitectura, Cărturești, CineAmator, Revista Zeppelin, Igloo, Zile și Nopți, AARC.ro, IqAds, Filme-carti.ro, Banchiza Urbană, THE INSTITUTE, Cinemap, Cinemagia, Smark, MovieNews.ro.