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Film Info

Germany, France 2024 | 98 min. Director: Victor Kossakovsky
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The Match Factory GmbH
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50668 Köln Phone +49 221 5397090 http://www.the-match-factory.com

Production Company

Ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH
Pfaffendorfer Str. 26
04105 Leipzig Phone +49 341 9839697 http://www.majade.de

Project / Host

German Documentaries

Categories

Documentary

Architecton

Synopsis

From filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda, Aquarela) comes an epic, intimate and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward.
Centering on a landscape project by the Italian architect Michele de Lucci, Kossakovsky uses the circle to reflect on the rise and fall of civilizations, capturing breathtaking imagery from the temple ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon, dating back to AD 60, to the recent destruction of cities in Turkey following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in early 2023.
Rocks and stone connect the disparate societies, from ghostly monoliths stuck in the earth to tragic heaps of concrete rubble waiting to be hauled off and repurposed anew. Through Kossakovsky’s inquisitive lens, the grandeur and folly of humanity and its precarious relationship with nature posits the urgent question: How do we build, and how can we build better, before it’s too late?

With: Michele de Lucchi, Mauro Mella, Davide Alioli, Nick Steur, Abdul Nabi Al-Afi

Cast & Crew

Festivals/awards

2024
74 BERLINALE Competition
21 CPH:DOX Copenhagen
21 Millenium Docs Against Gravity
58 Karlovy Vary IFF
V'24 Viennale
37 IDFA at Amsterdam

World Sales

The Match Factory GmbH
Domstraße 60
50668 Köln Phone +49 221 5397090 http://www.the-match-factory.com

Production Company

Ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH
Pfaffendorfer Str. 26
04105 Leipzig Phone +49 341 9839697 http://www.majade.de

Cast & Crew

Victor Kossakovsky
 Heino Deckert
 Ben Bernhard (BVK)
 Michele De Lucchi (Architect)
 Victor Kossakovsky, Ainara Vera
 Alexander Dudarev
 Evgueni Galperine
 Andrew Efimov (Timelab Pro drone filming), Artem Chirukhin (DOP drone filming)

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Documentary
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