Staff Picks: Child’s Play
$11.50
Dir. Yael Melamede
2024, Israel, USA, 82 min
English and Hebrew with English subtitles
Rated G
After living for nearly two decades in the U.S. and raising a family there, Ada Karmi-Melamede moved back to Israel in the early 1980s, where she became a very accomplished and prolific architect. From Jerusalem’s Supreme Court building to the Open University of Israel to Ben Gurion Airport, and beyond, Karmi-Melamede’s work has defined many corners of her home country. In this heartfelt and elegantly made documentary, her daughter Yael Melamede, a filmmaker and former architect herself, widens the scope on this pioneering figure, inquiring into the sometimes difficult choices instrumental in forming her family life and professional career. Sculpting with a cinematically architectural aesthetic all her own, Melamede has constructed a film that’s as much about how the public spaces around all of us are imbued with the personal as it is an intimate family portrait that only she can tell.
Sponsored by Crosier Kilgour
Winnipeg’s Architecture + Design Film Festival (adff.ca) presents critically acclaimed films focusing on the importance of architecture and design in everyday life. The films cover a range of design-oriented topics from architecture, landscape and urban design to graphics and product design. A+DFF is the only Canadian based festival devoted solely to architecture and design.
We are extremely pleased to have the support this year of Telefim Canada as well as the Manitoba Arts Council, The Manitoba Association of Architects, Exchange District Biz, The Consulate General of Switzerland in Montreal, and the Faculty of Architecture Endowment Fund (University of Manitoba). A big thank you goes to the architecture and engineering firms who sponsor films each year.
Each year we look for films from around the world that are not available on streaming services or local theatres. Not only do the films educate us about buildings, landscapes and their designers. They allow us to enjoy armchair travel to India, Africa, Europe and learn about a diversity of places and designers.
