A fashionable film event
The Moritz Feed Dog is celebrating its eighth edition, which will be held at the Cinemes Mooby Bosque.
Are you a fashion and cinema lover? Well, this spring you can't miss the Moritz Feed Dog, Barcelona's fashion film festival that will last for five days. This year, you can enjoy the best fashion documentaries related to legendary designers, fashion shows, sustainability, style, news, jewellery, music and supermodels. There will also be various guests. Take the opportunity to discover the different faces of fashion through the seventh art, from 20 to 24 March.
The festival is the first in Spain to bring together cinema and fashion, and this year's edition offers the screening of twenty films, including an official section. This one opens with a documentary focusing on the figure of actress Tilda Swinton, an icon of a different language of fashion, a work by Pierre-Paul Puljiz, entitled Tilda Swinton. Le Geste Et Le Genre (2023).
This section also includes the works Apolonia, Apolonia, by Lea Glob (2022), an impure and beautiful portrait of a young painter brought up in the Parisian bohemian world and recorded over a period of thirteen years. You will also enter the personal creative universe of Simon Porte Jacquemus with Loïc Prigent's Jacquemus, le prince soleil (2023).
In addition, you can explore the unknown story of the designer and poet Ana de Pombo, Coco Chanel's right-hand woman, in Mi última condena. Ana de Pombo, by Juan Mata (2023), as well as the story of one of the first black supermodels to appear in films by Federico Fellini or Otto Preminger with the film Donyale Luna: Supermodel, by Nailah Jefferson (2023).
A couple of documentaries are also planned in the section "The Critical Look": Slow Fashion (2022), by Melissa Eidson, a route through three countries to see the different parts and conflicts of fashion production, as well as The Story of a Panty and of Those Who Make It, by Stéfanne Prijot (2019) about the process of shoemaking and the ugly side of the textile industry.
In addition, there are other documentaries about Coco Chanel, Gianni Versace, Arianna Phillips, Patricia Field, Boucheron, David Gómez-Maestre, Karim Adduchi, Scooter LaForge and Canes. There is also a section of classics with screenings of 27 Piazza Castello (1998), by Jean-Michel Vecchiet; Chop Suey, by Bruce Weber (2001) and Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo? (1966), by William Klein. The closing play of the festival will be Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (2023), by Stephen Kijak, based on Rock Hudson, a Hollywood star who was forced to live hidden in a lie.
The festival also organises three round tables after the respective screenings, related to music and fashion, the construction of an artistic identity based on fashion and, finally, on the human cost of the price of economic clothing.
Take the opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of fashion through cinema, thanks to the Moritz Feed Dog, which will take place from 20 to 24 March at the Mooby Bosque Cinemas. The times of the screenings vary depending on the documentary, but the general admission price is 8.50 €. Multiple subscriptions are also available. The round tables are free of charge until full capacity is reached, but priority is given to those attending the documentary. If you want to buy your ticket or check the programme, you can do it from the Moritz Feed Dog website.