Open Call Short Films Dutch Design Week
Photography: Anwyn Howarth
Flock, Folk, Field
New Order of Fashion (NOOF) is an international platform for exceptional fashion and textile talent by presenting fresh and radical perspectives through innovation, experimentation and co-creation. Our goal is to fuel the industry’s transition toward fully circular and regenerative practices. In times of radical environmental, social, economic and cultural change, a collaborative approach is essential. Through exhibitions, activations, research and residencies, we strive to enrich the discourse around sustainable approaches and to support those exemplary practitioners that are at the forefront of the sustainability revolution.
Every year, during Dutch Design Week we present a new generation of the most forward-thinking textile and fashion talents. For the 2026 Dutch Design Week (17-25 October), we tell the story of regenerative fashion practices through three perspectives: Flock, Folk, and Field.
About this open call:
NOOF tells the story of wool by listening for the voice of sheep from those who care for animals, people and landscape. How do stories shape our understanding of materials, care, and ecology? What new relationships become visible when different voices come together?
NOOF invites film and video makers to submit their work, exploring topics within these three areas of Flock, Folk and Field:
Flock - sheep, animals, human-animal relationships
What stories remain unheard? This perspective is about the human and animal relationships and the story of the animal behind the material.
Folk - craftsmanship, reinventing and reinterpretation of historical practices, community
What stories are preserved through making? This perspective is about craft, communities, and commonality.
Field - earth care, connection to nature, agriculture, resources, more-than human, shepherds, farmers
What stories are rooted in the landscape? This perspective is about resources, land and planet.
Criteria
We will use the following criteria:
• The degree of quality in film and story telling. Use of film in material story telling and relation to the contemporary themes and the potential impact thereof to spark refection and create awareness.
• The extent to which (the work of) the applicant reflects on urgent social, cultural and environmental matters, with the goal to contribute to more diverse and inclusive views. Work including projects surrounding wool or that research the topic of animal well-being and local community engagement in relation to textile and/or fashion design will be prioritised.
• The artistic and substantive quality as shown through the work presented in film.
Selected projects will:
have their work shown during the 9 days of the exhibition
be given the possibility discuss their film during a viewing talk in Eindhoven during the exhibition
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via the application formbelow.
For application related questions please email pollyanna@neworderoffashion.com
The submission deadline is August 16, 2026