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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Sob a Pele

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.

An adolescent girl tries to dream about memories of Mother while having to be physically present in the surrounding farm with grandmother.

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

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.

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.

After being released from rehab, a teen girl is forced to confront both her overbearing mother and her eating disorder at a birthday party for two.

The lives of three young Middle Eastern women intertwine as they struggle to defy tradition and create their own realities. From an arranged marriage and a lesbian love affair to an abusive family situation, the film delicately tackles some of the issues Middle Eastern women are confronted with today.

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.

The film follows an introverted 20-year-old girl, Duna Canet, as she leads a seemingly normal life. Yet, at its roots she is trapped and consumed by an eating disorder that refuses to accept. In as little as a day, the struggle unravels to the point where she hits rock bottom and sets out on a path of self-discovery and acceptance.