The personified voice of 17-year-old Ella’s eating disorder torments her and pulls her out of reality into a liminal space as she tries to live an everyday life.
Social & External
Ella
The Noise
Becca
Jason
Charlie
Cute Fitness Girl
Siri (voice)
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.
Olivia and Matthew Grey, 18-year-old twins born into a world of privilege and high expectations. There are almost no boundaries between them - even their dreams are connected.
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
A teenage girl, who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends, secretly binges and purges.
Teenager Lexi Archer moves to Chicago with her newly divorced mother and befriends a popular girl at her new school, Jennifer. After Lexi's volleyball coach suggests that she lose weight, Jennifer reveals she is bulimic and the two girls decide to help each other, leading to disastrous consequences.
When a university student gets fired from her job, supporting herself seems almost impossible.
Stuck in Saturday detention, two teen girls with a strong distaste for each other quickly find themselves on the run when they stumble across a dead teacher and a masked killer. Can they put aside their differences, and overcome their own personal struggles, in order to survive?
16-year-old Hamudi has an eating disorder. He is forced by his mother to go with a strange man named Ali to search for his missing son. Ali only speaks Arabic, and his visa is still valid for three days. The only thing he has of his son is a recent photograph. During their joint search, Hamudi begins to admire Ali and, for the first time, to question the image of men modeled for him by his macho father.
A young woman grapples with the untimely death of her sister, seeking solace in an imagined reality where they grew up together.
When a high school tutor discovers a painful secret about her favorite client, she is quickly triggered by a similar darkness from her own past.
Georgie Godwin is the fattest man in Britain. A tourist attraction, thanks to greedy 'agent, cabbie Morris. Devoted neighbour Janice is Georgie's only other regular outside contact until he meets Amy, a pregnant teenager fleeing a violent boyfriend ,whom he takes in as a lodger. Amy tries to help Georgie change his lifestyle, but Morris is more than keen to stop her ruining his tourist attraction.
In the wake of Glasgow’s rapid deindustrialization and economic decline in the 90s, a young Fraser falls victim to knife crime and is indelibly marked with a “Glasgow smile”, irrevocably impacting his sense of self and relationship to food.
Desperate for help, a woman in recovery asks an unlikely stranger on a dinner date.
A bodybuilding fever dream fueled by childhood trauma, food porn and acid techno music.
Victor turns 21 in a month. Before he turns 21, he has set two goals: to lose his virginity and to weigh less than 50 kilos.
High schooler Haruna befriends loner Yamada, then is drawn into the tangled relationship between him, a model and the girl who loves him unreasonably.
In this farewell letter to Ana (aka Anorexia), I reveal the suffering associated with this illness. I express my desire to regain my freedom and vitality by sharing not only my progress but also my relapses. Through the interweaving of drawings and poetry, I share this quest for reconstruction, which I hope will help raise awareness of this mental illness and bring a little hope to people affected by it and those around them.
Maledimiele tells the story of Sara, a teenage girl who sinks – slowly but inevitably – into the abyss of anorexia.
At a prestigious performing arts school, a teenage male ballet dancer desires to be at the top of his class while refusing to listen to his body.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Ex-fighter Raymundo forms an unlikely bond with a disgruntled man whose life and relationship with his daughter are unraveling. The men join forces to win a fight that could very well save Raymundo, his wife and their child.
A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.