Ugly Me: My Life With Body Dysmorphia

Beauty Mark(en)

Diane Israel, a former world-class triathlete, becomes a psychotherapist after battling anorexia. She shares her story while interviewing champion athletes, body builders and models about self-image.

PREP(en)

A bodybuilding fever dream fueled by childhood trauma, food porn and acid techno music.

Body Hair(en)

A young girl attempts to shave her legs for the first time, but things start going horrifically awry.

The Robbers(de)

Three trans women meet in a country house to plan a robbery. The trick of the heist is that, in order to create a false trail, they disguise themselves as men. While they share everyday life as a well-established team and lovers, they practice speaking in a deep voice, walking manly and behaving in a masculine manner. In this process, they reach their emotional and physical limits and repeatedly fail to imitate male connoted behavior.

Starved(en)

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.

When Will I Be Perfect?(en)

A dancer struggles with their self image, but continues to perform.

Lithium(en)

A young woman depends on her partner for happiness. As her mental stability wavers, their relationship strains and loneliness take a hold.

Sincerely Sha3shabona,(en)

Feeling not real? Let me go insane. An homage to the director's mind. A take on body dysmorphia and the bloody tale of self love.

The Kidnapping of Arabella(it)

A young woman is convinced she is the wrong version of herself, until a chance encounter with a 7-year-old changes her mind.

Mirror(en)

An aspiring model with body dysmorphia must confront her insecurities as they begin to manifest as the twisted form of her own reflection.

Body Dysmorphia(en)

A surreal visual film about the inner feelings of severe body dysmorphia.

Deformed(en)

A young man is forced to eat constantly because of a strange condition that causes deformations on his body.

Bodywork(en)

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.

I'll Smile in September(hi)

Kismateen, a 24-year-old brass band player in Old Delhi, tries to find his smile back with dental implants after being forcefully separated from the love of his life and losing his front teeth in a physical altercation.

The Oshima Gang(ja)

Basel Tattoo 2022(de)

Quagliarella - The Untold Truth(it)

The story of Fabio Quagliarella's life and his problems with a stalker.

Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance(en)

Documentary profile of the Scottish painter, screenwriter and director Donald Cammell, who committed suicide in 1996.

The Colour of Words(fr)

This afterword to India Song (Duras' celebrated 1975 film) is organized in several parts. It begins with an interview to Marguerite Duras by Dominique Noguez, an expert in her work; the interview links the film to the two movies whom it's related to: The Ravishment of Lol V. Stein and The Vice-Consul. Several themes are tackled: childhood, autobiographical traces, relationships between differents characters and different films and more. India Song's main actors — Delphine Seyrig and Michael Lonsdale, who played Anne-Marie Stretter and the French vice-consul — join the conversation and talk about their roles and their craft. Marguerite Duras then evokes her memories of the shooting with the composer Carlos D'Alessio and her camera operato Bruno Nuytten. The conversations are punctuated by clips of the film.

Berlin Babylon(de)

A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.