BEAUTY
- Logline
- Wiola, is a contestant on the makeover show Friday's Foxes. Wanting a "new and better life", she agrees to undergo a series of plastic surgeries at the TV station's expense. The film looks at how people's identity is constructed out of the distorted projections of their loved ones and shaped by clichéd expectations. It speaks of the need to go beyond one-size-fits-all visions of happiness. Defying convention and blending the surreal with the absurd, Beauty is a story about the instinctive need to be yourself.
- Talent
- Justyna Nowak
- Role of participant
- Director, Screenwriter
- Director
- Justyna Nowak
- Producer
- Włodzimierz Niderhaus - WFDIF in Warsaw
- Screenwriter
- Justyna Nowak (adaptation)
- Status
- finished
- Year of production
- 2019
- Running time
- 66 min
- Genre
- Experimental
- Country of Production
- Poland
- Production Company
- WFDIF
Festivals and Awards
2020 - Best Drama - Universal Film Festival, USA, Kansas City
2020 - Gold Remi Winner in experimental film - dramatic category - 53 International World Fest, USA, Houston
2020 - FIPRESCI Nomination - 23 Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival, Turkey, Ankara
2020 - Best Supporting Actress - Agnieszka J. Skrzpczak, Teatroteka Fest, Warsaw
2021 - Best Theater Adapted to the Cinema - Logcinema Theatre on Film, Buenos Aires
Official Selection :
2019 Koszalin Debut Film Festival, Poland
2019 Kozzi Film Festival, Poland
2019 Lubuskie Film Summer, Poland
2020 Ramsgate International Film & TV Festival, United Kingdom
2020 Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival, Turkey, Ankara
2020 Universal Film Festival - Kansas City, USA
2021 Wisla Polish Film Festival - Czech, Romania, Hungary
2021 Boston Women's Film Festival, USA
2021 Strasbourg International Film Festival, USA
2021 Logjam Theatre on Film, Buenos Aires Argentina
2020 - Gold Remi Winner in experimental film - dramatic category - 53 International World Fest, USA, Houston
2020 - FIPRESCI Nomination - 23 Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival, Turkey, Ankara
2020 - Best Supporting Actress - Agnieszka J. Skrzpczak, Teatroteka Fest, Warsaw
2021 - Best Theater Adapted to the Cinema - Logcinema Theatre on Film, Buenos Aires
Official Selection :
2019 Koszalin Debut Film Festival, Poland
2019 Kozzi Film Festival, Poland
2019 Lubuskie Film Summer, Poland
2020 Ramsgate International Film & TV Festival, United Kingdom
2020 Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival, Turkey, Ankara
2020 Universal Film Festival - Kansas City, USA
2021 Wisla Polish Film Festival - Czech, Romania, Hungary
2021 Boston Women's Film Festival, USA
2021 Strasbourg International Film Festival, USA
2021 Logjam Theatre on Film, Buenos Aires Argentina