World Fashion Shorts (7th Edition): Moscow International Fashion Short Film Festival

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The 7th edition of World Fashion Shorts will present a completely new program at a new venue – a one-day festival installation will take place at Vnutri Digital Art Center, located within the Khlebozavod No. 9 art cluster, on September 27, 2026.

This year, the competition received more than 200 submissions, with 43 short films from 18 countries selected for screening (Australia, Armenia, Brazil, the UK, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Spain, Italy, China, Pakistan, Russia, the USA, Taiwan, Türkiye, South Korea, and Japan). Together, they create a picture of vast cultural diversity and highlight the central idea of World Fashion Shorts – the festival aims to show how human identity is expressed through fashion, film, and video art. The winners of the competition will be selected by an international jury comprising:

Dfaniks – Founder of Cinettica International Fashion & Art Film Festival (USA)

Nando Yax – Associate Director of Guatemala Fashion Week (Guatemala)

Vilma Kutavičiūtė – Actress (Russia/Lithuania)

Nadezhda Vasilyeva – Costume Designer (Russia)

Ernest Muntaniol – Makeup Artist (Russia)

At its new venue, World Fashion Shorts will retain its unique festival installation format. The films will be arranged into eight thematic video streams that will surround viewers from all sides. The themes of the streams are determined by the contexts in which directors and designers explore fashion. They include the city and nature, emotions and dreams, the body and abstract forms, national traditions, and popular genres of mainstream cinema.

The strategic goal of the project, integrated into the Moscow Fashion Week framework, is to expand cooperation with fashion film festivals around the world and create a global network of horizontal connections where films and expertise can be regularly exchanged, fostering integration and mutual influence. WFS partners include Cinettica Fashion & Art Festival (Mexico–USA), Manila International Fashion Film Festival (the Philippines), Buenos Aires International Fashion Film Festival (Argentina), and Brazil Immersive Fashion Week (Brazil). In autumn 2026, Guatemala Fashion Week (Guatemala) will join them. New films provided by partner festivals will complement the World Fashion Shorts 2026 competition program and become part of the thematic video streams. In turn, the best films from the Moscow competition will be presented in the programs of partner festivals.

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) has also become a new partner of World Fashion Shorts. The one-day festival program will feature the dance performance “Kabluchki,” created with the support of the museum (choreographer – Victoria Bryzgalova).

The festival program will also include a master class titled “Shooting a Fashion Film in an Urban Environment” and led by Dfaniks, Founder of Cinettica International Fashion & Art Film Festival, while designer Ianis Chamalidy will provide the costumes for the shoot.

The 7th edition of the World Fashion Shorts festival installation will take place on September 27 at Vnutri Digital Art Center.

(Khlebozavod No. 9, Pavilion 4, 1 bldg. 4 Novodmitrovskaya St., Moscow)
Admission is free with prior registration via wfs.fashionsummit.org.

Event Details & Schedule
12:00–14:00
“Shooting a Fashion Film in an Urban Environment”
Master class by Dfaniks, Founder of Cinettica International Fashion & Art Film Festival, featuring costumes by Ianis Chamalidy.
14:00–18:30, 19:45–21:30
Screening of the Festival Program
18:30–19:00
WFS-2026 Competition Winners’ Award Ceremony
19:00–19:40
Dance performance “Kabluchki” by Victoria Bryzgalova
Supported by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA).
Follow updates on the Moscow Fashion Week website and Telegram channel @worldfashionshorts.

World Fashion Shorts: highlights
World Fashion Shorts is a one-day multimedia installation that brings together fashion, cinema, and video art. It showcases the short and striking works from the growing fashion film genre, which continues to gain popularity among both fashion brands and wider audiences. The project was first presented as a special event at the BRICS+ Fashion Summit on 30 November 2023, drawing significant interest from fashion industry professionals and young viewers alike. Both the films themselves – which explore fashion through the lens of cultural diversity – and their unique presentation style offered an unusual experience for the audience. The films were showcased simultaneously on multiple screens arranged around the perimeter of the hall, allowing viewers to create their own viewing strategy. Audiences could either focus on the highlighted film at any given moment or explore unexpected visual rhymes and contrasts across the different screens. This setup created a kind of personal montage, with moving images surrounding viewers on all sides. In this way, World Fashion Shorts is more than just a curated selection of fashion films; it is a full video installation where individual works combine to form a new artistic statement about fashion in the contemporary world. The format’s distinctiveness defines the project’s uniqueness — World Fashion Shorts can be experienced only in one place, and on one day.

World Fashion Shorts: history
Following its successful launch in 2023, the spring edition of World Fashion Shorts 2024 took place in the same ‘full immersion’ format, including an updated program and an increased number of themed video streams. Spectacular and sometimes enigmatic visuals were used to create a multimedia experience, and the public talk, which featured international guests, explored the development of the fashion film genre in Russia and around the world. Then, the festival announced an international competition to participate in the autumn edition. Experts from various countries viewed over 60 short films from around the world and selected the best ones to form the program shown in October. The spring 2025 program brought together the finest works from all previous festival editions. On August 30, 2025, the second World Fashion Shorts competition took place, shaping the festival’s seasonal schedule with the formula ‘Autumn brings the new, spring brings the best’. Every year, the festival embarks on fresh and exciting journeys at the intersection of fashion, cinema, and video art.
The genre of short fashion films is actively developing around the world. The World Fashion Shorts selection includes videos from South Africa, North and South America, Central and Southeast Asia, Europe, Russia and Belarus. Together they create a picture of a huge diversity of cultures and expand the understanding of fashion. The experimental multimedia format of the World Fashion Shorts project emphasizes precisely this aspect of fashion films. The third edition, which upheld the principle of cultural diversity, showcased Russian films prominently. The best of these were subsequently presented at partner festivals of World Fashion Shorts and screened in Berlin and Manila. The fourth edition summarised the results of the festival before the new competition round began, while the fifth presented an entirely new program of competition films and content from partner festivals. A special highlight of the fifth edition of World Fashion Shorts was Masha Yashnikova-Tkachenko's performance, ‘Intense Pursuit’, which explored the relationship between dance and photography. In spring 2026, the winners of the autumn competition shared how designers and directors can find each other to create fashion films together. Autumn brings new discoveries and new awards.

1. WFS-7 Competition Program Film ListForever John Lobb / «Джон Лобб навсегда»
2. Director: Insu Park, United Kingdom
3. Hôtel des Grands Voyageurs / «Отель великих путешественников»
4. Director: Elisa Baudoin, France
5. Stardust / «Звездная пыль»
6. Director: Ufuk Yargı Güler, Türkiye
7. Silver Heads / «Серебряные головы»
8. Director: Irina Alyanchikova, Russia
9. Fish Paper / «Рыболовная хартия»
10. Director: Majid Ramezanian, Iran
11. Aspette
12. Directors: Alexandra Isakova, Egor Mashkovoy, Russia
13. Red Sweater / «Красный свитер»
14. Directors: Reyhaneh Rahimi, Fatemeh Chegini, Zeinab Nasiri, Ayda Mohamadi, Fatemeh Moghadam, Narges Mohamadkhani, Iran
15. La Mujer Salvaje / «Дикая женщина»
16. Director: Maria Balchis, Russia
17. Fragile Imperia / «Хрупкая империя»
18. Director: Elizaveta Sharay (Chekalova), Russia
19. Green'd Out / «Зеленый угар»
20. Director: Jolie Criscione, USA
21. The Bird-Headed Statues / «Статуи с птичьими головами»
22. Director: Akari Sōma, Japan
23. Arlecchino / «Арлекино»
24. Director: Aleksiya Loseva, Russia
25. The Frog in the Well / «Лягушка в колодце»
26. Director: Hu Mage, China
27. Lunatics Of The Dreamer / «Безумные фантазии»
28. Director: Ahmet Hamza Mizan İzci, Türkiye
29. Memory of the Depths / «Память глубин»
30. Director: Roman Komarov, Russia
31. Black Dandy / «Черный денди»
32. Director: Iclic Collective, Italy
33. The Story of Arthur Smith / «История Артура Смита»
34. Director: Insu Park, United Kingdom
35. Made in China / «Сделано в Китае»
36. Director: George Georgakopoulos, Greece
37. Urish
38. Director: Eva Rafaelyan, Armenia
39. Pop & Squelch / «Хлоп и хлюп»
40. Director: Ekaterina Lyangasova, Russia
41. Formed by Water / «Сформировано водой»
42. Director: Aliya Sukhanova, Russia
43. Me And My Self / «Я и я»
44. Director: Ariiq Septiawan, Indonesia
45. Is this seat taken? / «Это место занято?»
46. Director: Catherine Cannon, Ireland
47. Crosswoke
48. Director: Insu Park, South Korea
49. pages. / «страницы.»
50. Director: Kael Souto, Brazil
51. Daylight / «Дневной свет»
52. Directors: Danil Golovanov, Vasya Berezin, Spain
53. This is not a metaphor / «Это не метафора»
54. Director: Noemi Forti, Italy
55. Who Controls The Black Box / «Кто контролирует черный ящик»
56. Director: Xi Wang, China
57. Special Cut / «Особенный крой»
58. Director: Zuzya (Daniil Zuev), Russia
59. In her presence / «В ее присутствии»
60. Director: Angelina Galeeva, Russia
61. Maison / «Дом»
62. Director: Daria Sharoyko, Russia
63. Threshold / «Граница»
64. Directors: Yana Smirnova, Anna Smirnova, Russia
65. Douce Vie / «Сладкая жизнь»
66. Director: Vick Zamfolini, Brazil
67. The World Is at My Command / «Мир у моих ног»
68. Director: Shirong Ma, Italy
69. Crossroads of Choice / «Перекрестки выбора»
70. Director: Zlata Averina, Russia
71. Entropy / «Энтропия»
72. Director: Sergey Sinyagin, Russia
73. Part / «Часть»
74. Director: Daria Yazykova, Russia
75. The Shepherd / «Пастух»
76. Director: I-Chun-Chen, Taiwan
77. Chasing Forever Within Ourselves / «В погоне за вечностью внутри себя»
78. Director: Vishal Kodwani, Australia
79. Primroses and Rocks / «Первоцветы и скалы»
80. Director: Galina Titova, Russia
81. Wild Cats / «Дикие кошки»
82. Director: Roman Komarov, Russia
83. Wayne
84. Director: Usman Mehar, Pakistan
85. Lawrencepur
86. Director: Usman Mehar, Pakistan