The vision for AAFF2016 is a series of feature and short film screenings over four days in June/July 2016, to be held at the Bioscope

Fuelled by the magic of film and fired by the desire to celebrate architecture, the Architect Africa Film Festival was created in 2006 to acknowledge and embrace the astounding reality of urban living.

In 2016, the Architect Africa Film Festival (#AAFF2016) will partner with our valued sponsors – the SA Council for the Architectural Profession, the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg, PPC Cement, Business & Arts South Africa, Saint-Gobain, Propertuity, the Paragon Group and Afritects – to bring audiences exciting and thought-provoking content on our dynamic and multi-layered built environment.

Advances in digital communications and media have changed the way we live, work and play. It has become easier, cheaper and faster to communicate new concepts, concerns and ground-breaking ideas. Correspondingly, the power of digital media to offer us a more socially equitable, environmentally considerate and economically effective platform has never been greater. Previously unheard voices can now be heard; new spaces and opportunities are opening up all around us all the time; and we’re able to engage around common causes in ways that previous generations could not.

The vision for AAFF2016 is a series of feature and short film screenings over four days in June/July 2016, to be held at the Bioscope in Maboneng, Johannesburg, with parallel evening events at the GSA’s brand-new space within the Museum of African Design (MOAD), The GA_P: A Saint-Gobain Urban Lounge. 

The screenings will be open to the public and CPD-accredited for architectural professionals.