DOG DAYS

What is lacking in the world in which animals no longer exist? Two protagonist of Dog Days decided to establish a company which provides services for those who need a replacement for animals that are already extinct. As it appears, in relations of human and animals, all kinds of emotions are involved. Among friendship and attachment there is always certain amount of violence, which seeks find it’s outlet.

  • Genre: Live action
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 15
  • Year: 2019
  • Color: colour

Director: Zuzanna Grajcewicz

Script: Ewa Radzewicz, Zuzanna Grajcewicz

DOP: Ewa Radzewicz

Editing: Katarzyna Drozdowicz

Sound: Rafał Nowak

Production company: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna

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About the director:

Zuzanna Grajcewicz

Zuzanna Grajcewicz

Director and screenwriter, born in 1994 in Szczecin, raised in Łobez in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, currently residing in Warsaw. She graduated from the Polish National Film School in Lodz in Film Directing and before that from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow in Film Studies and Theatre Studies. In 2020, she was the recipient of the Młoda Polska scholarship funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Her short movies have been shown at over several dozen festivals in Poland and abroad. She was awarded, among others, at the 18th New Horizons International Festival, 40. The „Youth and Film” Festival and 16. „Two Rivers” Film and Art Festival. She gained experience in working on many film sets. At present, she is developing her debut feature film.

Filmography:

2021 – Słuch
2020 – Wenus z Willendorfu
2019 – Dog Days
2019 – Porachunki

At festivals:

44. Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych w Gdyni, Poland, 2019 (competition)

Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2019 (screening)

DC Shorts Film Festival 2020, USA, 2020 (competition)

18th Tirana International Film Festival, Albania, 2020 (competition)

61st Brno 16, 2020, Czech Republic, 2020 (competition)

Shorts That Are Not Pants, Canada, 2020 (competition)

18th BOGOSHORTS Bogotá Short Film Festival, Columbia, 2020 (competition)

23rd Mecal Pro, Barcelona International Short and Animation Festival, Spain, 2021 (screening)

CONOFEST - International (Short) Film Festival, 2021, Spain, 2021 (competition)

CONOSUMMER22, Spain, 2022 (screening)

SOFA - Salón del Ocio y la Fantasía, Colombia, 2023 (competition)