My Body As Content (2024)

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.

Meet the Feebles

Heidi, the star of the "Meet The Feebles Variety Hour" discovers her lover Bletch, The Walrus, is cheating on her. And with all the world waiting for the show, the assorted co-stars must contend with drug addiction, extortion, robbery, disease, drug dealing, and murder.

guts

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

Saltburn

Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.

Bulimia: The Musical

BULIMIA: THE MUSICAL follows a young girl's journey from first vomit to last breath, in fifteen minutes of laugh-out-loud, puke-your-guts-out song and dance, all wrapped up with a positive message.

Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection

Following Karen Carpenter's meteoric climb to stardom in the 1970s and the little-known anorexia nervosa diagnosis that resulted in her untimely death.

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.

Starved

Benji is sent spiraling into a storm of self doubt after matching with a girl who is out of his league. A short film about body dysmorphia.

Light

Documentary about eating disorders among professional climbers

Amy

A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.

The Thinnest Line

A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now thar she is entering into adulthood.

Diana: In Her Own Words

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.

Requiem for a Dream

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

To the Bone

A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.

Binge ∞ Purge

After losing her job, Valerie (Valynn Turkovich) relapses into bulimia. It takes the new found friendship of an oddball woman named Jacey (Kate Huges) to help her find the way back to recovery.

Esto no es un espejo

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My Fat Arse and I

A girl who believes she is too fat is invited to the "Kingdom of Slimbuttlandia".

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.

Roberto

15 years have passed and Roberto is still in love with his neighbor, but she prefers to hide ashamed of her body. With his art and an old clothesline as the only way of communication, Roberto has a plan to push his beloved for face her monsters at once.

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.

A l'Aube d'un Renouveau

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.

i dreamt of this, Esther

After returning from college, a girl's controlling mother triggers her relapse into eating disorders and substance abuse in an effort to regain her autonomy.

Sharing the Secret

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

A l'Aube d'un Renouveau

In this farewell letter to Ana (aka Anorexia), I reveal the suffering associated with this illness. I sincerely express my deep 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.

River's Edge

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

The Whale

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

The One and Only Aethon

Shot entirely on vintage VHS-C tapes and loosely following the greek myth, The One and Only Aethon is a surrealist nightmare. The story follows Aethon as he struggles with his eating disorder and overbearing hyper masculinity. He is coxed by a seemingly helpful weight loss tape from Dr. Milton Mysercough, but something evil lurks that might just be himself...

Barely Recognizable

A movie musical about eating disorder recovery and overcoming perceptions of perfection. It follows the first couple of weeks of college for Gracie, a young woman who has (mostly) recovered from an eating disorder. As she attempts to forge a new identity on campus, her new surroundings and the challenges associated with her transition to college life cause the recovery to teeter. With the help of Isa, a drop-dead gorgeous sophomore beauty queen, Gracie ultimately discovers that recovery is not linear, but rather, takes several twists and turns along the way.

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.

Maledimiele

Maledimiele tells the story of Sara, a teenage girl who sinks – slowly but inevitably – into the abyss of anorexia.

Bones

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.

Likeness

For Mia, beauty is everything. A trophy, a promise, a ball and chain, a wish upon a star. A life sentence.

American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System

A provocative look at the costs, closures, and inequities plaguing American hospitals, which today are more about money and power than serving the health needs of individuals and the community as a whole.

Ultimate Chabite

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