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When a university student gets fired from her job, supporting herself seems almost impossible.

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.

When Friendship Kills

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.

Mary and Max

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.

Briciole

Pullahiiri

A teenager (Sari Puumalainen) starts to suffer from bulimia nervosa after her boyfriend tells her to loose a bit weight. The illness makes her neglect the school and her friends until she realises that she is not alone with her problems.

Feed

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.

Requiem for a Dream

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas

A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.

Body/Ciało

A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga, who is still grieving her recently deceased mother, might try to harm herself, sends her to see a psychiatrist who's dealing with her own loss in an unusual way.

リバーズ・エッジ

High schooler Haruna befriends loner Yamada, then is drawn into the tangled relationship between him, a model and the girl who loves him unreasonably.

Sharing the Secret

A teenage girl, who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends, secretly binges and purges.

Bodywork

A theater actor with crippling body image insecurities must face his greatest fears when he is asked to perform nude on stage in his dream role.

guts

Desperate for help, a woman in recovery asks an unlikely stranger on a dinner date.

The Fattest Man in Britain

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.

Life Is Sweet

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.

Healer

A young woman grapples with the untimely death of her sister, seeking solace in an imagined reality where they grew up together.

Bitter Taste

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.

Nocturnes

TES is coming out of anorexia. The rise to the surface is difficult, the body is disordered, no longer responds in the same way. Eat again is to accept to lose control. It is both regaining strength and accepting its vulnerability. But the game is worth the candle.

My Obsessive Compulsive Childhood

'Tom' from Birmingham, 22, - who did not wish to reveal his real name - had a traumatic childhood as his mother suffered from untreated mental illnesses including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), anorexia, and depression.