At this year’s edition, a run of films shine a light on issues of housing, from the perils of gentrification to the intractable challenge of urban homelessness.

New York's Architecture and Design Film Festival founder has picked out five screenings to get in the diary ahead of the event's opening next week, including movies that explore the lives and works of architect Denise Scott Brown, Bauhaus educator László Moholy-Nagy and 20th-century architect Bruce Goff.

It’s back: The 11th edition of New York’s Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) is set to bring interesting buildings and the people who design them to the silver screen this October.

At the Blueprint for Better film series A’19 in Las Vegas, films from this year’s ADFF highlight how designers can remedy pressing social concerns.

The Human Shelter, which today makes its U.S. premier at the Los Angeles Architecture and Design Film Festival, explores subjects like climate change, human conflict, and urban development.

The tenth edition of ADFF explores architecture’s untold stories, from Frank Gehry’s investigation of prison design to the post-9/11 life of the Twin Towers’ engineer

Kyle Bergman, Architecture & Design Film Festival Founder, Aims to Tell Real Human Stories

Dezeen promotion: highlights from the Architecture and Design Film Festival taking place in New York City this week include a documentary about Australian architect Glenn Murcutt and a movie set among the modernist gems of Columbus, Indiana.

INTERVIEW: ADFF Founder Kyle Bergman Invites You to Revel in Architecture Films All This Week!

The Gene Siskel Film Center and theWit hotel host ADFF 2011 May 5 to May 9.