On the surface, New York-based filmmaker Yael Melamede’s latest documentary is an intimate story about her mother, award-winning Israeli architect Ada Karmi-Melamede. Ada, 88, who was born Mandatory ...

"The role of architecture is to find connections between all the elements." An official trailer has debuted for a biopic documentary film titled ADA: My Mother the Architect, profiling the fractured ...

Four decades after her mother left the family in New York to pursue a career as an architect in Israel, Yael Melamede, 57, decided to make a documentary about her. “Ada: My Mother the Architect” is ...

Nathaniel Kahn didn't know his father, celebrated architect Louis I. Kahn, all that well. However, he learns alot -- both good and bad -- in his new documentary film, "My Architect: A Son's Journey." ...

A personal family photo of Yael Melamede and her mother, Ada Karmi-Melamede. Photo courtesy Salty Features Ada has played on the festival circuit since 2024 and will be released theatrically in New ...

“My Architect” is an excellent new documentary (opening today at Film Forum) that comes perilously close to a narcissistic flame-out from time to time, yet always manages to right itself at the last ...

The normal route for a film about architecture is maybe a showing or two on public television and, if it happens to be particularly insightful, a long afterlife in university architecture departments.