Aalto

Year: 2020
Country: Finland
Director: Virpi Suutari
Genre: documentary
Runtime: 103 min.
Age: 18+
This captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto, the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects, focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major figures of modernist art and design including Le Corbusier, Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Come on a cinematic tour of their iconic buildings all over the world, from a library in Russia, a student dormitory at MIT, an art collector's private house near Paris, to a pavilion in Venice. 

Narrated by experts in the field and featuring never before seen archive footage, Aalto tells the love story of an extraordinary couple with a great passion for human scale architecture.

Awards & Festivals:

Göteborg Film Festival – Nominee: Dragon Award (Best Nordic Documentary)
Jussi Awards – Best Music, Best Editing, Nominee: Best Documentary Film
Millennium Docs Against Gravity – Nominee: Chopin's Nose Award