ADFF 2026-27 Opening Night

The Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) opens its 2026/2027 season in New York with the world premiere of MUNDO FRÁGIL, directed by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine.

MUNDO FRÁGIL is a road movie that takes artist-filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine across Chile with architect Smiljan Radić, from the Atacama Desert to the Cordillera mountains. Known for their anthropological and often humorous approach to architectural subjects, Bêka & Lemoine turn their lens on one of Latin America's most singular architectural minds: a Chilean of Croatian heritage whose work refuses easy categorization, threading together primitive construction logic, sculptural thinking, and a deep attunement to landscape and material. Winner of the 2026 Pritzker Architecture Prize, Radić has long worked out of an intentionally small Santiago practice, producing buildings that move between the rough and the delicate, the geological and the handmade. The Chilean terrain becomes the frame through which the film asks how place, myth, and physical matter shape an architect's imagination. 

Following the screening, Smiljan Radić will join filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine for a conversation moderated by Martino Stierli, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA.