Watch Spike Lee’s classic movie, one time only at the festival heart! During Rotterdam Architecture Month ’23, AFFR presents a special one-off screening of the still relevant classic Do the Right Thing by Spike Lee. The screening takes place at the floating festival heart in the Maashaven – the perfect opportunity to see this film on the big screen in a unique setting.

Extra tickets for the screening of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing are now for sale, numbers are limited so don’t wait too long!

With this film AFFR engages provocatively with the theme of this year’s RA month: Liquid City. For if you look at a heat map of Rotterdam you immediately see that all the water turns green, but the city turns dark red. And Do the Right Thing clearly illustrates what the effects of an overheated city can be. For that alone, every inhabitant of Rotterdam – and every city dweller in general – should see this film at least once.

About Do the Right Thing

It’s the hottest day of the year, and in New York’s working class district of Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn relationships between residents reach boiling point, partly because of the summer heat, partly because people are intolerant of one another. Do the Right Thing was a resounding commercial and artistic success and it established the reputation of Spike Lee as a director. The film was released in 1989, but many of its themes – police violence, racism, gentrification, heat stress – remain topical almost 35 years later.

About AFFR

AFFR – the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam – takes place from 4 to 8 October. With our theme for 2023, Contested Space, we ask: Whose is the space we all share? And that is also a burning question asked in Do the Right Thing.

Praktische info

• Ticket sales for this program via the website of AFFR (see ticket link)
• If you visit this program, it is not necessary to buy a separate entrance ticket for the festival center. A ticket for this program already provides access to the floating festival center.
• Please report to the welcome desk of the Rotterdam Architecture Month at the square in front of the Maassilo. Here, scan your ticket and receive a wristband that will grant you access to the program in the floating festival heart. If you arrive 30 minutes before the start of the program, you can also take a route through the festival heart.
• IMPORTANT! Do not go directly to the floating platforms without a (program) wristband, as you will not be granted access.

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