LAFFF: THE STUDIO
A dedicated video archive showcasing all film submissions, shortlisted and winning films.
There’s a spot with your name on it.
‘23'-’24 winners
2024 submissions
Based on true events. A director loses his mind in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Emma, undergoes a profound transformation as she becomes a mother. The film explores the intimate and often surreal journey of early motherhood, blending reality with dreamlike imagery.
In a post-apocalyptic New Orleans inspired by Mad Max, Big Freedia and a fierce crew of “warriors” stand as guardians of the city and it’s vibrant music culture, fighting to protect it from the forces of gentrification and devastation.
"Creative Vandal" delves into the extraordinary career of Nick Egan, a visionary artist who transitioned from designing iconic t-shirts for the Ramones to directing groundbreaking music videos for legendary acts like Duran Duran, Alanis Morissette, and Bon Jovi.
An energetic and vibrant fashion film launching the BOSS X Perfect Moment collaboration
2023 submissions
emigration is a journey into the unknown, that evokes inevitable feelings of uprooting together with hope and optimism.
2022 winning films
I’ve forgotten if it was a dream or a journey. Or if one mirrored the other and perception erased the stitches of each reality.
A boy a girl, two cats, and a plastic cocktail bag. Or how to love someone miscommunicating.
It was a personalized declaration, the first time I had gathered the courage to show the public my horrible skin full of wounds and scars.
S1NGULAR is a retro-psycho thriller about our sometimes narcissistic / sometimes solipsistic relationship to technology, ourselves and how we can evolve with it or succumb to its overreaching power.
Celebrate New York's reopening with this audio-visual homage to the greatest city in the world.
COMMITMENT is a video artwork signed by Neels Castillon, and co-produced by Mixte Magazine and Motion Palace, featuring 7 young dancers from the Ballet Preljocaj Junior.
The pioneers of a new era, of a new territory, of a new yourself are standing.
We are the echoes of voices trying to reach the opposite side of the beach.
We have travelled across the universe and visited dozens of planets looking for an answer.
Nonetheless, to close our eyes means to see, and to listen is to enunciate its name in silence.
We multiply every time we blink, and we hide to be seen.
2021 Winning Films
SNL's Bowen Yang and Chloe Fineman finally get to be in a Fashion thing with the help of Paris Hilton and friends.
A quintessential New York story. From 1945, for 69 years, the influential subscription-only Fashion Calendar with its iconic pink pages and red covers—designed to be easily noticed on someone's cluttered desk—laid out every fashion show and event in New York City, including New York Fashion Week. Behind it was founder Ruth Finley.
Triana is an Andalusian woman who needs to fight against tradition.
Mijo is a young dreamer, suddenly blessed with the gift of King Midas. However, his ability has a unique twist: whatever and whoever he touches is stylishly pimped up.
The story is placed in the near future when artificial intelligence has reached singularity and human lives become infinite, so nobody really dies.
Emotion Inn holds memories of an old-world trying to be preserved in the never-ending space. It offers experiences that help understand the meaning of love and how it became distorted over time; how feelings are not an easy task for every life form.
The Window is a fashion short film that was shot for self-promotion. In it, we follow a mysterious envelope as it emerges from a drab corporate world and is passed over to our hero in her orange coat living her best life in a colorful and free world.
BODY is an exploration of the relationship between the mental and physical ego, through the stories of the subjects Elettra, Antonio, Sara, Lolita, Numa, Moussa and Mari, who are presented both dressed and naked.
Back to Us is the music short film born out of the Italian edition of the Levi’s® Music Project. Since 2015, the international project has been providing emerging musical talent from specific neighbourhoods with opportunities, resources and suitable structures to refine their skills.
2020 Winning Films
The latest spot for lingerie brand Hunkemöller features Dutch superstar Doutzen Kroes.
From the sixties until the end of the nineties Puck & Hans stood at the frontline of the Dutch world of fashion, always one step ahead of other designers.
An anti-fashion film about two co-dependent friends living in a fantasy, with one of them sometimes taking it too far.
2 in a Million (Director’s Cut) is J.A. Moreno’s personal take on the official music video he directed for Steve Aoki, Sting, and the trio SHAED.
"I Can’t Go Back to Yesterday” is an experimental cross-over music film, connected to the conceptual music album EASY ALICE.
Featuring the fashion eyewear of Georgetown Optician, we are taken into a world of silence where eyes do the talking and quiet is zealously guarded.
After realizing that she will spend a night alone, as her friend canceled dinner, our girl decides to have some fun at home. Once the record player is on, the fashion journey starts, as well as her explorations of herself and her style.
The art of style is all about the details. Returning to his starring role in the Boss Eyewear campaign, British actor Henry Cavill steps in front of the lens for a new film, wearing the latest BOSS eyewear collection.
2019 Winning Films
Auroville in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu is the home of production for Story MFG., a London-based label specialising in sustainable clothing. MR PORTER travelled to India to find out more about the brand, the husband-and-wife team behind it, and the local community turning their designs into reality.
Shot in Moscow by the award-winning director and photographer Anna Radchenko, Kokosmos is a tribute to Russia’s infatuation with space.
Made in America is the latest installment of Remake’s 'Made In' video series. The film addresses President Trump's call to action of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S., uncovering the unregulated challenges behind the initiative.
Music video for Troye Sivan's "Lucky Strike". In collaboration with Dropbox and A24. Clothing provided by Hardeman
A retro magazine comes alive in this exploration of modern iconography. A fashion film starring Margaux The Agency.
Our story is a poem. Our story is a feeling. Our story is a mosaic of moments – a moving, visceral collage of colors & shapes, hollers & whispers, energetic & effortless expressions of kinetic life.
2018 Winning Films
“The Eye Ball” is the sequel to the award winning “Our Family Know Glasses” film. It continues the true-ish story of the Voorthuis family, optically-obsessed owners of Georgetown Optician – a true-life Fashion eyewear retailer.
Lola’s manifesto is a brief moment in the life of two TV commercial stars between takes. They are a mother and a daughter who passionately discuss what they think a fashion film really is.
A music video that puts images to a song that talks about how we can make the same mistake over and over again. An ambiguous story, friendly and violent, like the lyrics of the song, that traps us in a story full of comings and goings with final surprise.
Europe’s historic concert halls set the stage for an ecstatic meeting of two art traditions which traffic in extremes of gender performance, enacting a space where the drag bar diva and the opera house diva share the same skin.
A basketball player in Villa Pueyrredon, Buenos Aires, is possessed by music and loses control of her mind and body.
A film in which the model wears nothing but accessories, presented as works of art, who play the lead role in the film. Fafa becomes a metaphor.
Timeless tells the story of a unique journey and love at first sight. The hero jumps into a relentless love quest through the decades: the style evolves but the polo keeps its eternal elegance.
The Santos watch is named after the aviation pioneer Santos-Dumont. It is claimed that his first flight in 1903 pre-dated that of the Wright Brothers.
MR PORTER released ‘How To Be A Winner,’ a short form video that encompasses the fun and functionality of the collection through a lighthearted, playful approach that teaches viewers ‘The PRADA Method’ of winning at bowling.
Documentary about Jillian Mercado: Model, Activist, Latina.
“Proclamation Punctuation” is an enthralling fashion film centered on a fabulously fascinating woman reciting a short soliloquy paying homage to her love for using exclamation points in her missives.
Your first love feels like a drug. It’s bodies interlocked like Tetris blocks, it’s giggling at hickeys, it’s looking at the world through those heart shaped sunglasses in a completely un-ironic way. Your first heartbreak is a dagger. It’s gorging on cake, it’s kissing with your eyes open, it’s bumping into your ex snogging someone else in an elevator.
For the new Colorado-themed Stieglitz collection, we follow the Stieg-Girl on her latest adventure traveling through various settings and reflecting on her time in Colorado in this layered fashion film.