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Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine

Artists-filmmakers working at the intersection of visual arts and non-fiction cinema, Bêka & Lemoine have, for twenty years, explored how people experience, perceive, and relate to space on emotional, social, and cultural levels through innovative narrative and cinematic forms. Their films have been widely screened and awarded at major international film festivals and exhibited in both solo and collective exhibitions at leading art and architecture institutions, including Fondation Beyeler (Basel), Fondation Cartier (Paris), Fondation Prada (Milan), MAXXI (Rome), the Venice Biennale (Venice), Barbican Art Gallery (London), among others. In 2016, MoMA (New York) acquired their complete body of work produced up to that date. Their films are part of other renowned collections including MAXXI (Rome), CNAP (Paris), and Fondazione Prada (Milan). They have directed over forty films, including Koolhaas Houselife (2008), Barbicania (2014), The Infinite Happiness (2015), Moriyama-San (2017), Tokyo Ride (2020), and the large film installation Homo Urbanus (2017–2027). In 2023, they published the book The Emotional Power of Space.

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Submissions for the 2025/26 season are now closed.
We will begin accepting submissions for the 2026/27 season in January 2026.