Genre: Architecture

The first in a pair of intricately interconnected films, five women struggle to keep their decaying family hotel afloat.

A Berlin apartment building is placed under lockdown, igniting social, cultural, and familial tensions in this intoxicating potboiler.

A day in the life of a streetwise kid named Queenie as she navigates her own path through New York City.

This playful documentary chronicles the construction of the Depot, a shimmering open-concept space in Rotterdam that reimagines the possibilities for art storage and exhibition.

An artist explores, observes, and draws scenes of La Défense, a neighborhood west of Paris whose large-scale public artworks constitute the largest open-air museum in Europe.

When a venomous spider escapes and multiplies in a Paris apartment building, a group of friends must find a way out of the web of nightmares.

The Black church is explored as a site of personal and political belonging through portraits of communities across west Philadelphia and southeast London.

The events of companion film Bad Living are seen through the eyes of the hotel’s guests, who are juggling problems of their own.

From acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho comes an incisive and whimsical essay film about movies, memory, and the places of one’s past.

In celebration of this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial, this program tracks how we establish strong connections to a place, and the complications of staying in it.

Former residents remember happier times in a beloved apartment.