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Venus
Lea Glob, Mette Carla Albrechtsen
Denmark, Norway
2016
80 min
World Premiere
Festival history
During casting sessions, young women from Copenhagen talk candidly about their sexual experiences. Initially, the two female directors wanted to make a film as a way of better understanding their own sexual desires and frustrations. In response to a casting call, more than a hundred ordinary young women turned up and talked straight into the camera about their erotic fantasies. As shooting progressed, the filmmakers realized that these intimate casting sessions should in fact be the final film. The interviewees gradually open up: one shy woman discovered that she gets aroused watching two men having sex. Another woman talks about how she finds it difficult to submit to a man. A recurring frustration is that women are supposed to be simultaneously innocent and wild, often an impossible combination. Because the man is supposed to actively take steps – you don’t kiss him, he kisses you – his intentions and motivations are easier to understand. The bare surroundings of a casting studio allow to pierce these female passions.
Credits
Screening copy
    Danish Film Institute
    Danish Film Institute
World Sales
    DR International Sales
    DR International Sales
Production
Co-production
    Faction Film
    Faction Film
Involved TV Channel
    DR Sales,
    SVT,
    NRK,
    RUV
    DR Sales,
    SVT,
    NRK,
    RUV