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A new documentary series on design – featuring industrial designers Patty Johnson and Helen Kerr, architect Trevor McIvor and a motley crew of urban-design guerillas – starts tonight on the CBC’s documentary channel.

Toronto is host to many indie film festivals, and Reel Artists Film Festival, which starts tomorrow, is one of the most original: five days of documentaries showcasing leading international artists, from photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto to performance artist Marina Abramovic.

An architecture exhibition in Zurich showing works by Gigon/Guyer Architects proves that a moving picture is worth a lot more than a thousand words.

The documentarian behind Helvetica, Objectified, and – his latest – Urbanized was recently in Toronto for an exclusive viewing of all three films, which are screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox until January 17. Azure caught up with him to talk about city planning, Frank Gehry and Massimo Vignelli.

A new film explores the re-energization of a series of architectural jewels by Ricardo Porro, Roberto Gottardi and Vittorio Garrati that were nearly lost to the Cuban jungle.

This summer, ArchiText and InterfaceFlor present Docs at Dusk, an outdoor film fest in Toronto focussing on sustainability and design. The lineup: The End of Suburbia, So Right So Smart and Blue Gold: World Water Wars. 

From May 5 to 9, the Architecture and Design Film Festival in Chicago features a selection of 39 films and documentaries about design heavyweights including Renzo Piano, Stefan Sagmeister and Philippe Starck. Here are our top 10 picks.

Next week, Toronto’s Reel Artists Film Festival brings the work of such brilliant creators as Wanda Koop, Pipilotti Rist, Sol LeWitt and Ai Weiwei to the big screen.