On February 12th, 2026, at Village East by Angelika, Miu Miu premiered the 31st chapter of Miu Miu Women’s Tales, commissioning a new Mona Fastvold film titled Discipline. The short, starring Amanda Seyfried and directed by the Norwegian auteur Mona Fastvold, continues the house’s long-running dialogue with contemporary female directors. The film will debut across Miu Miu’s digital channels before streaming globally on MUBI from March 13th, 2026.
Miu Miu Women’s Tales: a ritual of becoming
Titled Discipline, the 31st commission in the acclaimed Miu Miu Women’s Tales series unfolds within the hushed corridors of a stately boarding school in Northern Italy. At sunrise, amid mist and silence, pairs of girls and life-sized dolls awaken side by side—each doll guided by a masked puppeteer. What follows is a ritualized choreography of dressing, inspection, and routine, where clothing becomes both armor and constraint.
Fastvold frames girlhood as inherited performance: garments from the Miu Miu Spring/Summer 2026 collection function as costume, ritual, and quiet control before a sense of self is fully formed. As the camera traces the Principal Dress through playtime, lunch, and headmistress scrutiny, tension builds toward a moment of rupture—an ecstatic break from imposed choreography. In that subtle act of resistance, a girl is born.
Surrealism, puppetry, and poetic defiance
This Mona Fastvold film is conceived as a “tone poem,” blending surrealist imagery with emotional precision. Shot with painterly attention to light and texture, Discipline employs bespoke puppets as extensions of the self—visual metaphors for the divide between private identity and public performance. Movement replaces dialogue; gesture becomes language.
An abstract score by Daniel Blumberg underscores the atmosphere, while choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall lends the film its hypnotic physicality. The result is both austere and dreamlike: golden light against cold stone, rigid uniforms softened by emotional undercurrents.
With Discipline, Fastvold—known for her character-driven storytelling and Academy Award–nominated screenwriting collaborations—explores femininity as both nurture and boundary. Clothing shapes posture, gesture, and perception long before identity stabilizes. “Clothing is never neutral,” she has noted. “It is costume, control, ritual.”
Photography by M+M PRODUCTIONS, courtesy of MIU MIU
Photography by M+M PRODUCTIONS, courtesy of MIU MIU
