VENUS OF WILLENDORF

WENUS Z WILLENDORFU

Young and ambitious Kamila lives in the world, where having surplus of weight guarantees success on all fronts of social life. When in short period of time both her employer and her boyfriend discover, that she only pretend to be overweight, she is fired from work and abandoned. She is forced to leave the disguise that makes her look fat and face the hostile reality. In order to put on some flesh, Kamila decides to attend the therapy in Fit&Fat Clinic. Will she manage to go through the therapy, put on weight and adapt herself to the standards?

  • Genre: Live action
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 23
  • Year: 2020
  • Color: colour

Director: Zuzanna Grajcewicz

Script: Zuzanna Grajcewicz, Ewa Radzewicz

DOP: Ewa Radzewicz

Editing: Katarzyna Drozdowicz, Aleksandra Rosset

Sound: Rafał Nowak

Production company: PWSFTviT (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:

Polish Film Festival Los Angeles 2021, USA, 2021 (competition)

Rome Independent Film Festival Awards 2021, Italy, 2021 (competition)

25th Brooklyn Film Festival 2022, USA, 2022 (competition)

La Guarimba Film Festival, 2022, Italy, 2022 (competition)