The London Festival of Architecture (LFA) is back for a
month long celebration of architecture and city-making in June 2026. With
activity happening across London, the Festival will once again be platform for
conversation, testing new ideas, promoting emerging talent, helping shift us
towards a more equitable, sustainable city.
Phoenix is proud to partner with the Architecture Film
Festival Rotterdam (AFFR), the world's leading film festival dedicated to
architecture, urban development, and city culture to curate the best films for
you for this year's theme that is ‘Belonging’.
Renovation
29-year-old Ilona and her boyfriend have just moved into a
new apartment in a block of flats. When the building’s renovation begins soon
afterwards and she befriends Oleg, one of the Ukrainian construction workers,
her idyllic notions of a fulfilling life as she approaches thirty start to
crumble, like the old plaster on the walls. Gabriele Urbonaite’s feature debut
is a masterful, contemporary portrayal of the lives of millennials, who on the
one hand are exposed to modernity, endless possibilities and Western Europe's
constant pressure to perform, while on the other they still carry the traumas
of previous generations brought up in the Soviet Union, whose shadows are still
alive in the face of current political events.
