Image credit: ADFFThe Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) has announced dates for its 2025/26 season with the Canadian festivals taking place in November.To celebrate its 17th year, the ADFF will be showing documentaries about architecture and design from around the world at its upcoming series of festivals.The first festival of the season will kick off in New York in mid-October with the Vancouver and Toronto festivals taking place from Nov. 5 to 9, and Nov. 12 to 15, 2025 respectively.In challenging times like these, we remember the power of art as a change-maker. As a festival dedicated to the brilliance of architects, designers, artists, and filmmakers, we hope to provide a small part of that vital inspiration, said the ADFF in a release.This year, the ADFF will feature a lineup of the best new design films from around the world with films focusing on design luminaries like Gerrit Rietveld, Sigurd Lewerentz, Enric Miralles, the Harvard Five (Johnson, Johansen, Gores, Noyes, and Breuer), and the Campana Brothers.Three films will focus on the creative fringes of the design/build process, and there will also be films about urban planning and active furniture design. The event will also feature various speakers and special events.ADFF Toronto will feature films including At the Gardens Place,Building on the Edge,Changing Lanes,I Have a Name,Kensington Market: Heart of the City,The Space Architect, and more.Green Over Gray: Emilio Ambasz. Photo credit: ADFFThe ADFF is also set to land at the newly opened TriCity Pavilion in Vancouver beginning on September 15 with a series of special screenings that will run through to November 30, launching a season of cinematic programming that leads directly into ADFF: Vancouver. Curated by festival director andADFF founder Kyle Bergman, these screenings will feature three groups of short films that celebrate the ingenuity of architecture and design.The films will be screened daily from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Gallery Theatre, located on the second floor of the Pavilion.Additionally, on Sunday, September 21, Vancouvers Nemesis Coffee and ADFFwill be holding an exclusive ticketed Sunday Matinescreening ofThis is Not A House by director Morgan Neville, which details the construction of one of the most unique homes in the world.The first drop of this tightly packed program of international cinematic shorts about the creative spirit of architecture and design includes the following.Form & Place Patkau Architects (Canada, 2022)A meditative look at the work of Patkau Architects, as they shape form with intention and quiet reflection, highlighting the thought process behind the lauded Audain Gallery in Whistler, B.C.Theres Life in the Insectarium (Canada, 2024)A sensorial winter journey through Montreals Insectariumits tropical dome amid snow becomes a poetic refuge. The insects, and their interactions with the pavilion, become the soul of a structure given lyrical life.Counterweight (USA, 2024)Olson Kundigs kinetic sensibility takes centre stage as Tom Kundig and gizmologist Phil Turner deploy analog ingenuitywalls that pivot, buildings that shift. Their blend of craftsmanship and innovation is on full display.Instruments in the Architecture: Building the Pianodrome (UK, 2019)A community of artists transforms discarded pianos into an amphitheatre, marrying craft, sustainability, and audience-powered performance.Earthscapes Into the Wild (India, 2025)In Tamil Nadu, a vaulted structure nearly dissolves into its landscape. With no dialogue, the film asks: can architecture listen to its site, rather than dominate it?The Color of Light (Mexico, 2025)Artist Esteban Fuentes de Mara encounters the iconic Mexican architect Luis Barragns homesCasa Gilardi and Casa Ortegato learn not how to see, but how to feel colour, space, and light in unexpectedly profound ways.Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Studio Gang (USA, 2024)A visual celebration of Studio Gangs architectural vision for the Arkansas Museum of Fine Artswhere form, context, and artistry converge.New sets of short films will be released on October 15 and November 15, closing on November30, 2025. Beyond the films,ADFF: Vancouvers TriCity Central screenings offer access to discussions and Q&A sessions with filmmakers, festival organizers, and design professionals, discussing the idea of community and how architecture shapes lives.For more information, click here.The post ADFF announces dates for 25/26 season appeared first on Canadian Architect.