Melbourne Design Week Film Festival

The 2023 Melbourne Design Week Film Festival presents a program of new narrative features and documentaries in an exploration of architecture and design seen through the lens of filmmakers from around the world.

Bringing together films that deal with the international refugee housing crisis, relics of yesterday's future, contemporary urban planning and new Australian experimental narrative, the festival will take audiences on a fascinating journey through contemporary issues and questions through the eyes and voices of the people and forces that are shaping the world we live in. Containing a range of Australian premiere titles, it presents a rich and diverse curated program filled with ideas, debate, discussion and conceptual approaches to the build and design environment internationally.

 

2:00pm - 4.00pm
Shelter Without Shelter (2020), 98min
Director, Mark E. Breeze

Shelter Without Shelter is the story of the great hopes and profound challenges of sheltering forced migrants across Europe and the Middle East. Filmed over two years, this documentary feature takes you behind the scenes to the realities of refugee shelters, the people who created them, and the migrants who have to live in them. From mega-camps, city squats, and occupied airports, to informal settlements, requisitioned buildings, and flat-pack solutions, Shelter Without Shelter gives you unique insights into one of the greatest challenges of our times. We all need shelter, but what is it?

 

4:30pm - 6:30pm
Hunter from Elsewhere – a Journey with Helen Britton (2021), 97min
Director, Elena Alvarez Lutz

 

Accompanying the artist on her search for precious and everyday materials and her exploration of nearly forgotten craft techniques, Hunter from Elsewhere – a Journey with Helen Britton shows her encounters with the last remaining keepers of a vanishing knowledge.

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