A documentary film about the life and work of Paulo Mendes da Rocha, a renowned Brazilian architect. He tells his own story and the highs and lows of a remarkable life trajectory throughout a series of revealing interviews with his own daughter, Joana, over a period of ten years. Paulo, exposes his reflections on urbanism, nature, humanity, art and technique, shedding light on the thinker whose ideas granted him the prestigious Pritzker Prize, lifting him to the Pantheon of contemporary architecture.

These two very intimate characters, father and daughter in a fluid, constant dialogue, are also aware that the film is also exposing their privacy and familiar history, playing with intimacy and disclosure, and inverting the roles of director and directed in the ambiguity of life as a constant performance.

In 2006, Mendes da Rocha received the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The jury cited his “deep understanding of the poetics of space” and an “architecture of profound social engagement.”

Festivals & Awards
São Paulo International Film Festival 2017, Brasil - Best Documentary for the Audience
Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa 2017, Portugal - Best Film for the audience
Rio International Film Festival 2017, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano - Habana Film Festival, Cuba, 2017
BAFICI - Festival de Cine de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina 2018
Milano Design Film Festival 2017, Milan, Italy
Lund International Architecture Film Festival 2017, Sweden
Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2017, The Netherlands
XI Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival, Turkey
19º Festival Kinoarte de Cinema de Londrina 2017, Brasil
ArchCine - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Arquitetura, Rio de Janeiro 2017
IAWRT - International Documentary Awards 2017, Philipines
17th MEDIARC Festival Internazionale di Architettura in Video, Firenze, Italy 2017
Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Denmark 2018
The New Zealand Architecture + Design Festival, Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch, 2018
DAAD - Days Of Architecture and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2018