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Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam: Concrete Stories and Byeway

At the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, which takes place from 8 to 11 October in Rotterdam, two Czech documentaries will be screened with support from the Czech Centre.
 

Concrete Stories

In the Czech-French documentary Concrete Stories, (2013, directed by: Lorenz Findeisen, 72 min., with English subtitles) people from all over Europe who live in concrete panel buildings, built in a time when industrial housing was part of the ideological clash between East and West, tell about their experiences there. The film presents a European story of standardization that has ruled the lives of entire generations, connecting various stories from all around Europe to erase the stigma concrete panel buildings often have.

When: 10 October 2015, 17:30

Where: LantarenVenster, Otto Reuchlinweg 996 (Wilhelminapier), Rotterdam

http://hague.czechcentres.cz/programma/meer/affri-architectuur-film-festival-rotterdam/

 

Byeway

The second documentary of Czech production directed by Ivo Bystřičan is Byeway (in Czech: Dál nic) (2013, 72 min., in Czech with English subtitles). Plans for the D8 motorway from Berlin to Prague have been ongoing for the past 50 years, and all that is now missing are a few kilometres close to the German-Czech border. That also happens to be the Bohemian Central Uplands, a protected nature reserve, and conservationists are trying to block completion of the motorway. In the meantime, trucks thunder along local roads through villages to make it from Berlin to Prague. 'What about protection for us?' asks a man who lives next to the busy road. The film presents the points of view of the construction worker building the motorway, nature campaigners, people living next to the huge new motorway, people living near the missing stretch of motorway and public officials. A spectacular project, a magnificient area, an idiotic process for an incomplete motorway built without permits... 

 

When: 9 October 2015, 15:00

Where: LantarenVenster, Otto Reuchlinweg 996 (Wilhelminapier), Rotterdam

 

http://hague.czechcentres.cz/programma/meer/affre-beyond-niets/