Making its international premiere in the Frontlight section, Danish doc “Fat Front” came to IDFA with a fair amount of buzz from its Scandinavian homeland, where it debuted in October. Directed by …
, the film follows four Nordic women—Helene, Marte, Pauline and Wilde—who are tired of kow-towing to society’s ideal of the body beautiful and have decided instead to embrace their curves. They all have their ups and downs, however, and the messages that they receive on their Instagram posts show that “body positivism” has a way to go.
Detlefsen added that the girls’ positivity was infectious. “We learned from the four main characters not to postpone our lives any more,” she recalls. “That was the most important thing. But we also learned a lot of structural things about feminism, and about oppression, and the stigmatisation of fat bodies. And as we came into working with these women, we learned so much about the more structural levels of fat activism. So that’s been a great process for us as well.
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