The Great Arch (2025)

Directed by: Stéphane Demoustier Cast: Claes Bang, Sidse Babette Knudsen, Xavier Dolan, Swann Arlaud Runtime: 106 min Genre: Drama Rating: TBC In French with English subtitles In 1982, French President François Mitterrand launches an international competition to create his landmark project: the Grande Arche de la Défense, envisioned as a modern counterpart to the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe. Against all expectations, the winner is Otto von Spreckelsen, a 53-year-old Danish architect unknown in France. Thrust into the heart of Parisian ambition and bureaucracy, he fights to realise his visionary design, only to find his ideals tested by the pressures of politics, ego and compromise. Un Certain Regard, Cannes International Film Festival, 2025 As part of Architecture Heritage Season” for “The Great Arch This film will be screened in conjunction with the Singapore Writers Festival 2025, where panellists on the programme ‘Tech Talks: The Revolution in Sustainable Architecture’ uncover the tech powering the next generation of sustainable architecture and urban design.