City Dreamers (2018)

Original title

Rêveuses de villes

Directed by

Joseph Hillel

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film profiles four women architects who helped shape modern city design. It shows their work and influence over many decades.

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What happens

City Dreamers is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Joseph Hillel and released in 2018. The film focuses on Phyllis Lambert, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, Cornelia Oberlander and Denise Scott Brown, four significant innovators in contemporary architecture who were among the first prominent women architects. The film premiered in November 2018 at the Montreal International Documentary Festival, before going into wider release in 2019. The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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