A puppet film to help you learn to love yourself exactly as you are
Ben is twelve, he loves to cook and he loves to eat. When back-to-school time comes, Ben notices that his classmates have started to change. Boys have grown taller, while he remained fat. Worse still: girls have also changed, they turned pretty – especially Claire. What can he do to please her now, when others make fun of him? Despite his love of food, Ben begins to diet. But nothing will go as planned.
With its original style, in which the puppets’ facial expressions and reactions take on its own dimension, Living large offers a funny and gentle take on the difficult transition from childhood to teenage years, and on self-perception. A film to get yourself a healthy dose of hope to take home with you.
Screenplay
Petr Jarchovský in collaboration with Barbora Dřevikovská
Anna Vášová
based on the novel "La vie
en gros" by Mikaël Ollivier published by Thierry Magnier
Best International Animated Feature Film, International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience , 2025, de
Contrechamp Jury Award, Annecy International Animated Film Festival, 2024, fr
Kristina DUFKOVÁ
Kristina Dufková was born in 1978, she is a director, animator and artist. She studied animation at the Film Academy of Miroslav Ondříček in Písek and at the FAMU in Prague. She won Best Short Animated Film at Anifest in 2009 for her graduation film A Tear is Needed (2008) and wrote a book of the same name. Her cinematographic work can be distinguished by both her mastery of animation and visual stylization. In her artistic work, she combines two different worlds – the world of children and the world of adults.
