Fashion in Film Festival 2025 presents GROUNDED, a major UK-wide season exploring the relationship between fashion and nature through the lens of cinema.
Spanning the late 19th century to present day, the programme examines fashion’s role as simultaneously a barrier and a connecting tissue between humans and the natural world. With over 80 films from around the world, including rare screenings and UK premieres, the season offers a decentred perspective on themes such as production, disposal, hybridity, migration, social justice, and environmental harm. GROUNDED presents diverse narratives addressing ecological and geopolitical concerns while exploring imaginative spaces of poetry, comedy, beauty, joy, horror, and transgression.
Hosted by venues across the UK, from Tue 20 May—Fri 31 Oct 2025, the season offers an expanded understanding of fashion’s entanglements with nature in an era marked by escalating ecological crises. The programme is co-curated by Marketa Uhlirova and Dal Chodha, with guest curators. It is possible with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery. Fashion in Film Festival is based at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
