KPMB supports Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) in Toronto

November 12, 2025

KPMB is proud to support the 2025 Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) in Toronto, presented by Eventscape at TIFF Lightbox from November 12-15.   

The ADFF is the largest film festival of its kind in North America, celebrating the best of architecture and design cinema. This year’s festival lineup consists of 13 films from around the world, ranging from documentaries about Toronto’s Kensington Market to Gerrit Rietveld’s residential architecture and building in Antarctica.  

“At KPMB, we believe that the quality of our cities improves when the public — not just subject matter experts — are engaged in the conversation. In North America, there’s still a gap in how design is valued by the wider public. It’s important to us that we support architectural discourse of all types and events like ADFF Toronto help cultivate an appreciation for how architecture and design shape our lives,” says Nina Boccia, KPMB senior director of marketing and business development.  

The ADFF is playing at the TIFF Lightbox. Completed in 2010, the building was designed by KPMB as the first purpose-built home for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). It combines a 42-storey point tower with a five-storey flexible loft structure that features a triple-height atrium, a suspended master control booth, and cinemas. 

As KPMB founding partner Bruce Kuwabara told Toronto Life in August, on the cusp of TIFF’s 50th edition, “The 504 streetcar rumbling along King [Street] made for less-than-optimal screening conditions. To solve the vibration problem, we built the screening rooms as stand-alone concrete boxes that essentially float in place. There are special springs between the theatres, and the framing absorbs the vibrations and keeps them perfectly quiet.”  

See the full festival schedule here. 

(Lead image: Maris Mezulis)