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The Nettle Dress
Credit: Dylan Howitt

The Nettle Dress

classified 12A
Film

Today at 18:00

Director
Dylan Howitt
Cast
Allan Brown
Details
68 mins, 2023, UK
Primary language
English

Dylan Howitt spins the yarn of textile artist Allan Brown's seven year journey to make a dress by hand just from the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles. It’s how Allan survives the passing of his wife, leaving him and their four children bereft, and how he finds a beautiful way to honour her.

Howitt's film follows Allan's journey through seasons and years, before finally sharing a healing vision of a dress returned to the woods where the nettles were picked, worn by one of his daughters.

A labour of love in the truest sense, The Nettle Dress is a modern-day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft.

Followed by a Q&A with director Dylan Howitt and textile artist Allan Brown, hosted by Amelia Twine, founder of Sustainable Fashion Week.

  • Screenings of The Nettle Dress on today are part of our Cinébites deal: get 30% off any main dish in the Café & Bar with a valid cinema ticket.

35mm
35mm presentation
AD
Audio Description
BSL
BSL interpretation
Baby
Baby screening
Bite
Cinébites meal deal
CTBA
Certificate to be announced
D
Dubbed
DS
Descriptive Subtitling
Intro
Introductory Talk
MSD
Masked and Socially Distanced screening
PR Intro
Pre-recorded Intro
PR QA
Pre-recorded Q&A
PS
Partially Subtitled
QA
Q&A Session
R
Recorded
RS
Relaxed Screening
S
Subtitled
Times TBC
To be confirmed
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