Unnerving globular textiles and coiffured guinea pigs at the Berlin Fashion Film Festival awards

Subject matter varied wildly at the Berlin Fashion Film Festival awards this year, from the Parisian suburbs, dancing textiles and a guinea pig hair model to a very NSFW Barnaby Roper video.

Go Zones, an energetic film set in the Parisian suburbs, won three awards: Best Lifestyle, Best Use of Fashion and Best Editing. The film for i-D made with Caviar Paris aims to showcase the city’s hidden culture, with vibrant footage of the basketball players in Pigalle’s colourful basketball court by Ill-Studio, and the underground scene, showing they are not “no-go zones.”

Zeitguised won the Best VFX award and Best Experimental Video for its film Geist.xyz, which shows strange globular forms made in various textiles, moving to an unnerving electro soundtrack.

Thalia de Jong’s Golden Boy won the Beauty and Cosmetics award for its film starring a coiffured guinea pig. This was made with Cake Film.

Also, Barnaby Roper’s very NSFW film Scratch’n’Sniff won Best Direction — this was made with production company Cadence for Nowness.

Other winners included Jean-Paul Gaultier’s big budget The Factory by Dvein in collaboration with Miles Aldridge won Best Production Design; Stephan Wever’s Metamorphosis for Best Local Production; Breaking Rules by Victor Claramunt for Best Emerging Talent; and Snowbird by Sean Baker for KENZO Spring-Summer 2016, which was awarded Best Major Brand.

The awards are the culmination of the fifth edition of the festival, with 40 winners in 20 categories.