Moritz Feed Doc focuses on stories that highlight the role of women in two highly influential fields: fashion and cinema. Two worlds with enormous power to shape imaginations and set trends, yet where women’s contributions have often been sidelined or gone unrecognized.
Behind major aesthetic movements, cultural revolutions, and iconic figures, there are women who have driven profound changes, opened new paths, and challenged power structures that have traditionally rendered them invisible. In these films, the festival aims to place them at the center of the narrative, recover their memory, and celebrate their decisive influence on contemporary culture.
Brigitte Bardot
A key film is Bardot, which revisits the career of Brigitte Bardot, a cinema and fashion icon. The documentary shows how she became a symbol of freedom and style, influencing generations with her attitude, image, and decision to defy social and cinematic conventions. The film restores the voice and presence of a woman who transformed the perception of femininity and fashion in the 20th century, later becoming one of the world’s most outspoken activists.
The Balenciaga Workshop Women in “The Hands that Sew”
In fashion, many hands and voices remain anonymous and invisible. This documentary seeks to address some of these absences through the stories of the women working at the Balenciaga house—artisans of exquisite skill and true guardians of the brand. Workshop heads, seamstresses, apprentices, pattern makers, pressers, models, and saleswomen… Their professionalism represents intangible heritage and offers a fascinating testimony of life in the maison’s workshops and salons, in both Spain and France.
Bunny Yeager and Bettie Page in “Naked Ambition”
This remarkable documentary explores the influence of figures like Bunny Yeager and Bettie Page on the construction of female imagery in popular culture and erotic photography. The film highlights how these women challenged conventions, created their own style, and left a lasting mark on the worlds of fashion, photojournalism, and visual culture.
Audrey Hepburn in “Funny Face”
Another essential title, Funny Face, turns Audrey Hepburn into an absolute icon of fashion and cinema. Beyond her charm and unmistakable style, the film shows how her image helped redefine beauty standards and the imagination of haute couture in the 1950s, demonstrating how a female figure can define an era and transform the relationship between fashion and identity.
Angelina Jolie, Ella Rumpf, and Anyier Anei in “Couture”
A contemporary portrait of the haute couture world in Paris, centered on three women holding very different positions within the industry. From an established and powerful perspective to an emerging voice seeking her place, the film is particularly relevant because it places these women at the center of the story and shows how, from diverse positions, they redefine the rules of the game.
Adrianne Blue Wakefield in “Adrianne & The Castle”
An intimate documentary that celebrates Adrianne’s creative force, turning the space she inhabits into an extension of her memory and identity. The film highlights a woman who transforms grief, love, and perseverance into a singular and deeply political work. At its heart is a female trajectory that, through intimacy, becomes both resistance and affirmation.
