The 2026 Architecture & Design Film Festival opens at MoMA with Smiljan Radić, Renzo Piano, and a provocative slate of films asking architecture to reconsider its heroes, its housing experiments, and its obsession with the new.

The world’s most comprehensive film festival dedicated to architecture and design, the aptly titled Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF), will commence its 2026–2027 season on October 12. The opening night selection—the world premiere of MUNDO FRÁGIL, a portrait of 2026 Pritzker laureate Smiljan Radić directed by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine—will screen at The…

The celebrated Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF:STIR) just concluded its second edition in Mumbai at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), from January 9 – 11, 2026.

The second edition of ADFF:STIR opens in Mumbai on January 9, spotlighting films and conversations that shape global architecture and design discourse. The festival made its debut with a splash in 2025, after being founded by New York-based architect and film enthusiast Kyle Bergman in 2009.

As seen at recent film festivals, the latest wave of architecture documentaries capture underappreciated histories

From November 12 to 15, the Architecture and Design Film Festival returns to TIFF Lightbox with an eclectic roster. Here are the five we’re most looking forward to.

Architecture & Design Film Festival comes to South Asia with ADFF:STIR Mumbai

Jim Venturi shines a light on his parents, the postmodern innovators Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. How architects’ hidden lives are often revealed by kids.

For the past fifteen years, ADFF has featured documentaries that reveal the human stories behind architecture and design's biggest ideas.

"There are films that will be engaging for anyone from any walk of life. They are general audience films that have a design story in them." — Architecture and Design Film Festival founder Kyle Bergman

The inaugural Architecture & Design Film Festival has just concluded its stellar program of screenings in New York.

Documentary on Richard Henriquez premieres at ADFF: Toronto and Vancouver The Architecture and Design Film Festival returns to Canada this week. ADFF:Toronto, presented by Eventscape, will be at the TIFF BELL Lightbox once again from November 2-5. ADFF:Vancouver, presented by All in Pictures and Vancouver Special, will be at the Hollywood Theatre and VIFF from November 9-12. One of the…