One of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s iconic films is getting a special anniversary celebration.
Italy’s Prada Foundation is mounting a film installation by the 61-year-old Mexican Oscar-winning to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his first feature Amores Perros.
The Mexico City-set triptych starred Gael García Bernal in his breakout role and won the Critics’ Week Award at Cannes Film Festival.
Titled “Sueño Perro: A Film Installation by Alejandro G. Iñárritu,” the piece will unveil plenty of previously unseen footage from the visceral film, which weaves together three stories connected by a car crash. It delves into Mexico City’s underbelly through the tales of a teenager who gets involved in dogfighting, a model who loses a leg in the car crash and a troubled hitman.
The installation will be unveiled on September 18 at the Prada Foundation’s Milan headquarters. It will then travel to the LagoAlgo cultural center in Mexico City — where it will be on display from October 5 to January 4 — and subsequently to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in spring 2026.
“Sueño Perro” marks Prada Foundation’s third collaboration with Iñárritu, who conceived the institution’s “Flesh, Mind and Spirit” screening series that he co-curated with U.S. critic and film scholar Elvis Mitchell.
In 2017, he created a groundbreaking experimental VR installation titled “CARNE y ARENA” in Milan, which was part of the Cannes Film Festival’s official selection and was awarded a special Oscar.
“With this project, we aim to open new perspectives on Iñárritu’s work and on a film that, from its very start, combined the force of realism with the density of symbolism,” said fashion designer Miuccia Prada, who is head of the Prada Foundation, in a statement. “Twenty-five years after it was released, ‘Amores Perros’ continues to speak to the present and to capture, with visual and emotional power, the full complexity of the world we live in.”
Described as a multisensory exhibition rooted in the intersection of cinema and visual art, the “Sueño Perro” installation will feature unused “Amores Perros” footage preserved in the film archives at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
“Over a million feet of film were left on the cutting room floor during the editing of ‘Amores Perros,’ said Iñárritu in the statement. “These intensely charged images, 16 million still frames, were buried in the UNAM film archives for 25 years.”
“On the occasion of the film’s anniversary, I felt compelled to revisit and re-explore these abandoned fragments, with the grain and the ghosts of celluloid which they hold,” he added. “Stripped of all narrative, this installation is not a tribute, but a resurrection —an invitation to feel what never was. Like meeting an old friend we have never seen before.”
After “Amores Perros,” Iñárritu went on to make the 2003 film 21 Grams that landed Sean Penn a best actor award in Venice, while 2006’s Babel won him Cannes’ best director award and seven Oscar nominations. Iñárritu’s 2014 feature Birdman won four Oscars, including best picture and director, while The Revenant earned him a second consecutive directing Oscar.
Iñárritu’s next film, which is working-titled Judy, stars Tom Cruise alongside Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller, Sophie Wilde, Riz Ahmed, Michael Stuhlbarg and John Goodman. It’s due for release via Warner Bros. in 2026.
