Nosakhari Film Festival Returns as Fashion and Cinema Converge at London Fashion Week 2025

Each season London Fashion Week offers its fair share of spectacle, but few moments carry the weight and quiet magnetism of the Nosakhari Film Festival. Returning for its third year on the official schedule, the festival once again takes over Rich Mix Cinema in Shoreditch on 18 September 2025, continuing to shape a dialogue where fashion and film meet, merge and transform.

What began as an experimental foray into storytelling has matured into one of the most intriguing fixtures on the calendar. Nosakhari’s festival is not about red carpets and rehearsed soundbites. Instead, it is a reminder that fashion at its best is about narrative and film provides the most visceral of canvases.

At the heart of this year’s edition lies Travel Well, a short nostalgic campaign film that doubles as a love letter to Nosakhari’s own evolution. It is both retrospective and forward looking. An ode to beginnings, to the collective experience of building something enduring, and to the respect for craft that continues to define the brand. Like the festival itself, Travel Well is not simply about travel in the literal sense. It is about transformation, resilience and what it means to keep moving even when the path feels uncertain.

The line up underscores the weight of that ambition. Akinola Davies Jr, whose Lizard claimed the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, joins the roster alongside Dumas Haddad, celebrated for his arresting visual style, and Dutch animation studio Job, Joris & Marieke, whose playful narratives have earned Academy Award and International Emmy recognition. They are joined by Mathieu Ajan, Paul Shkordoff and Nolt Vutthisak, all lending their distinctive voices to a programme that refuses to compromise between art and accessibility.

Nosakhari also presents an immersive installation chronicling the brand’s journey from concept to contemporary icon, as well as a panel discussion and audience Q&A. These intimate spaces bring craft, process and philosophy into focus. It is these conversations, as much as the films themselves, that give the festival its unique pulse. A place where audiences are not simply passive viewers but participants in an ongoing dialogue between fashion and culture.

London has always been a city of collisions. History and modernity, grit and glamour. The Nosakhari Film Festival thrives in that tension, positioning itself as both mirror and provocateur. In an industry often obsessed with surface, it asks us to look deeper. Not at the clothes or the credits but at the stories that shape them.

Nosakhari Film Festival

Thursday 18 September 2025Rich Mix Cinema Shoreditch, 35–47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA