The Rise and Fall of Fat Friday

An in-depth look at how a diabetes drug reinvented weight loss culture and the way we treat obesity in America.

De l’asphalte à l’assiette

Filmmaker Connor Luke Simpson explores the underground-and often misunderstood-subculture known as feederism. A community where the fatter you are, the sexier you are.

Aflah and his team began working on a personal documentary about Aflah challenging himself to lose weight. But as time went on, his goals began to crumble, his diet slowly lost focus, while Aflah’s desire to control the direction of the film only grew stronger. His team began to question whether this documentary was truly about change, or simply about Aflah wanting to make himself the center of the story.

Le Beurre : Du bonheur en motte ?

Leaving their hometown of Fulchester in the North of England, Sandra and Tracey head for the bright lights of London, shagging and boozing their way to fame and fortune.

Harry is a pickpocket, torn between two beloved women, one of them the cop who arrested him, the other the ghost of his dead wife. Is Harry ready for a new relationship? Can a cop date a thief? Harry learns that a jealous ghost can be a nuisance, but shows unexpected bravery.

A couple discuss where they want to go to eat for dinner

A clumsy oversized cyclist causes chaos.

An action comedy centered on Blubberella, an overweight half-vampire woman whose footsteps cause explosions and whose dual swords are used against anyone who makes fun of her. She must face an army of undead Nazi soldiers in her valiant struggle against bloodshed and tyranny.

The film is a narrative from the screenwriter, consisting of perverse scenes.

Mudança: ou a emocionante história de superação de um sedentário

Seamus the Shameful is a young Irishman who is morbidly obese, as such, he’s ridiculed and told to “go to hell” by his classmates (Charlie Day, Idris Elba) but the fat man’s life changes for good, when he wishes to go to hell himself, and his wish comes true… Follow John Lloyd Cruz and Ron Perlman as they walk, jog, and stretch through hell all the while learning what it means to be in shape and love yourself!

Divided into five parts, this film traces the long strike by workers at the Caravelair caravan factory in Trigniac, near Saint-Nazaire, led by the C.G.T. and C.F.D.T. unions. Shot in 1975, the film achieved the strange feat of being produced entirely by workers' producers - 15,000 of them paid in advance for their tickets - and of being amortized, and even made profitable, by being shown outside the commercial circuit alone.

A silent excavation of everyday objects gradually reveals the site as Auschwitz-Birkenau, turning archaeological work into a stark meditation on memory and loss.

The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated permutations of the film’s title appear like subtitles—the letters are scrambled over and over again, undermining the meaning of Pierre Trudeau's infamous motto.

Shot in Quebec, Canada, The Subterranean Blackness of Roots is a 16mm film triptych which uses several processes specific to analog cinema (hand processing, optical printing, photochemical alteration). The film seeks to show the sensory experience of the invisible life of stones, plants and the nature that surrounds us. It’s a dive into the heart of matter, the essence of the vegetal world and the nourishing earth.

Flucht vor Hitler - Die Wiener in China

This experimental film is constructed from still photos of the violent protests in response to then-US President Ronald Reagan’s visit to (West) Berlin in 1982 and illustrations by the French artist Gustave Doré.

A female voice narrates, as if it were an educational film or a report, the social changes that have taken place as a result of the digital imposition on all aspects of life: a new achievement of the “American Dream”.