Denmark

An exploration of a public space on Copenhagen's waterfront where the architectural structure, and access to the water, provide an open space to play, contemplate and just be. The film was produced during the CAFx Film & Architecture Workshop in Copenhagen: Leave No One Behind.

South Africa

In the heart of Johannesburg opened in 2019 the Holocaust & Genocide Centre, which attempts to educate the contexts and patterns of genocides to students and other groups. This idea is transportated through it's inspiring architecture and the multitude od supporters and volunteers such as survivors.

Azerbaijan

The movie is about a packed poor community living in Darnagul. Azerbaijan is oil reach, but most of the profit is gathered under the power of the ruling elite class. Poverty is real in most of the districts and people move to Baku with a hope of a job to cover their basic needs. It leads to over-population and high centralization of the capital city where already around 5 million people (taking into account the whole peninsula) are residing (official statistical numbers are modified/falsified to show less). These kinds of communities living outskirts of Baku are mostly people who migrated to Baku from the other districts or are internally displaced people after the Nagorno-Karabagh/Artsakh war. These Neighborhoods are under very poor conditions and people live in very anti-sanitary conditions. Toilets are usually public where most people use the same toilet in the neighborhood (mostly outside the apartments) and people mostly do cheap labor work to survive. They mostly sell goods or repair things for so cheap and they open a bazaar/market every Sunday to offer their services or sell their goods.

Azerbaijan

Baku hosts almost 5 million citizens and there are 2 million cars on the roads. The expansion of roads and the construction of new bridges almost paralyzed traffic for the past decade and even now, after the constructions, things are not better. Mass tourist waves and the large number of people moving to Baku every year for better opportunities worsen the situation. Thus, overpopulation and bad city infrastructure leave many citizens of Baku going through a hell of traffic and congestion during rush hours. Public transport is also very packed and not so safe for many to use. The situation proves that there is a significant need for more alternative and green forms of transportation. Cycling is proven to be one of the most sustainable ways of transport and the city’s road infrastructure exclusively leaves cyclists behind. There are no bike lanes in most parts of the city, and only a few parks have them that have no point or connection points. Also, the drivers are very aggressive and impatient with the cyclists. Many drivers create very precarious situations for cyclists and the aggression is the same for those who ride motorcycles as well. Driving on big roads with no bike lane and around the sidewalks with many underground paths make things really worse for cyclists. Also, the lack of community and cycling culture kills its potential for the future. Baku needs sustainable and innovative solutions to its major urban problems and leaving the cyclists behind only challenges the situation further.

Poland

The video "Primary Swarm" (2020) by Agnieszka Mastalerz and Michał Szaranowicz is staged in a wind tunnel used for analyzing the flow of air. A group of people is moving towards a gate. Their relationship is not clear, they might be competitors. From a standing point, the people start to crawl. Outside, the natural environment represents an actual area in the city of Warsaw, Poland, where new apartments are supposed to be built. The artists wanted to document the current status of the landscape, before its transformation. While witnessing the slow disappearance of a green area of the city, previously available for the community and now passing in private hands, the artists wonder who will be entitled to live in those spaces and how architecture influences forms of collective life.