After 25 years, the avant-garde designers Gabi Asfour, Angela Donhauser, and Adi Gil of the New York fashion collective threeASFOUR tell their story of fashion, friendship, creativity, and survival in the documentary threeASFOUR: Full Circle.
Directed by Sean Ono Lennon in his feature documentary debut and co-directed by Brian C. González, the film follows the designers Gabi Asfour, Angela Donhauser, and Adi Gil as they navigate the creative and financial pressures of sustaining their unconventional work.
Over more than 25 years, threeASFOUR has developed a distinctive approach to fashion that combines couture craftsmanship, technology, natural forms, and ideas about connection and unity. Their designs have attracted fans including Björk and Chloë Sevigny and earned the collective the 2015 Cooper Hewitt/Smithsonian National Design Award. The film offers a closer look at the artists behind the designs and the challenges that come with trying to build a sustainable business without compromising their creative principles.
threeASFOUR: Full Circle made its world premiere at the 2026 Tribeca Festival, where it screened as a Spotlight Documentary. The film later screened at the Woodstock Film Festival, while additional festival screenings are scheduled at the Mill Valley Film Festival, Santa Fe International Film Festival, Montclair Film Festival, and Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival.
Following its festival run, the documentary is set for an exclusive U.S. theatrical engagement at New York’s Film Forum beginning November 13, 2026, followed by a wider theatrical rollout.
For more than 25 years, the designers behind the avant-garde fashion collective threeASFOUR— Gabi Asfour (Lebanese-Palestinian), Angela Donhauser (German-Tajikistani), and Adi Gil (Israeli) — have created clothing with uncompromising vision. Drawing inspiration from natural forms and pioneering techniques, they have continually pushed the boundaries of what fashion can be, earning them a cult following, global museum exhibitions, and fans like Björk and Chloë Sevigny. Yet behind the acclaim lies an ongoing challenge to survive in an industry driven by commerce. The film is a moving portrait of three iconoclasts daring to center creativity and cross-cultural collaboration over money and profit.
Filmed over five years, the documentary captures both the acclaim surrounding threeASFOUR and the pressures of debt, unpaid rent, and an industry that often places commercial demands ahead of artistic vision.
For Sean Ono Lennon, the documentary became a way to explore the deeper ideas behind threeASFOUR’s work. In his statement on the film’s official website, Lennon explains that “At its surface, the story of threeASFOUR is about art versus commerce, friendship versus business, beauty versus utility. But at its core, their work is about connection—about imagining a world in which creativity can bring people together rather than pull them apart. Their designs carry a message about interdependence, shared humanity, and our relationship to one another and to the Universe. This film is my attempt to listen to that message, and to help amplify it.”
In a review for The Moveable Fest, following its Tribeca premiere, Stephen Saito noted, “Rather than offering up an inevitable montage of yearly collections some time in the middle to impress with a continuum of reinventing their style, “threeASFOUR: Full Circle” curiously saves it until after the credits, where it isn’t only the threads that impress, but by then, a full appreciation of the effort it takes to simply keep going, perhaps demystifying the process, but making it all the more astounding.”
Watch the official trailer for threeASFOUR: Full Circle above.
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