Nocturnes

Don't Worry, I'm Fine(fr)

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

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story(en)

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

Briciole(it)

When Friendship Kills(en)

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.

guts(en)

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

Body(pl)

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.

The Best Little Girl in the World(en)

Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressures.

Catherine(en)

The true story of Catherine Dunbar's struggle with anorexia, that began when she was 15.

Paula(es)

At only fourteen years old, Paula hates her body. In an attempt to express what she feels, Paula creates a blog and becomes part of a large virtual community that shares her problems. Shelter in anonymity, she uploads content recorded with her cell phone, exposing her friends and family. The feeling of belonging blinds Paula, who begins to walk a lonely path in which bulimia and anorexia lurk as alternatives in the search for self-acceptance.

To the Bone(en)

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

Swallow(en)

Drew, a strong-willed teen, must face returning home to her broken family after staying in eating disorder rehab for Anorexia.

Maledimiele(it)

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

Physique(en)

When a young dancer who suffers from the pressures of being on a new elite team turns into a case of Anorexia, she must find her strength and see that she is enough as she is.

Full(en)

Jamie is a young man who suffers from both anorexia and bulimia. His memories of being teased for being over-weight coupled with people's treatment of his sudden weight loss lead him to question his decisions for the first time. We are allowed into his reality and given insight into his perspective as he holds everyone at a distance while he examines the details of his disillusioned world. And this allows him to see just how paper thin the reality he has been living in truly is. "Full" is not about overcoming an eating disorder; it is about understanding an eating disorder, and how a young man comes to understand it.

Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story(en)

Story about a runner whose bulimia and anorexia threatens both her dream of competing in the Olympics and her marriage to Denver's mayor.

Compulsion(en)

A strange and destructive relationship develops between a chef and her neighbor, a former child actress.

God Help the Girl(en)

Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a group.

Full(en)

A ten-year-old boy prefers not to eat. Where summer vines grow a mile a minute and insects are the size of birds, Ivo is becoming bones. Hypnotic and beautiful, FULL is the drama and terror of one boy's anorexia and his mother's failure to feed him.

For a Text(en)

Following the life of anorexic teen Tom Miller, a boy who wishes to be thinner.

Ana(pt)

Teenage swimmer Olivia's main goal is to enter and win the Brazilian National Swimming Championship: an already-difficult task, made harder by her struggle with anorexia and the daily pressures of family and friends. However, her friend Ana seems to approve of her idea of persisting in illness.