Movies: Anorexia

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

Marisa suffers from anorexia. But there's something that befuddles the doctors....

Documentary about eating disorders among professional climbers...

What does it feel like to have a panic attack? In this animated short from our Arts x Radio collaboration, Vancouver-based filmmaker and illustrator Karla Monterrosa animates a clip from CBC Radio'sCampus to imagine what it's like inside an 18-year-o...

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....

A fiction feature shot with real patients and their therapists that shows the day-to-day life of a group of anorexia nervosa patients during their hospitalization and the relationship with their therapists....

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....

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 p...

It's just another [excruciating] meal for Vienna - until an offer to conquer her greatest fear in 'three simple steps' arrives. Desperate for freedom from her fear of eating, Vienna takes the offer up - only to realize she bit off far more than she c...

At a prestigious performing arts school, a teenage male ballet dancer desires to be at the top of his class while refusing to listen to his body....

Catalyst is based on the real life story of lead actor April Morrow's experiences seeking treatment for a life-crippling eating disorder. Sam, An ambitious young woman coming to terms with the demons from her past, has finally agreed to accept treatm...

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Music student David develops anorexia after a home party at his college. This short film depicts the development of an eating disorder raw and without filters....

Alone and confused in a surreal army work camp, Sophie is befriended by Ana who offers comfort and advice. However, as the reality around Sophie grows more absurd, the boundary between friend and foe becomes blurred....

A young filmmaker struggles with her mental illness as she makes a documentary with the author Fiona Wright, and challenges her to express her experience with anorexia by preforming of one of her poems....

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

Teenage girls can be vicious, and even more so in the uncensored online world of the pro-eating disorder community. Chase is a die-hard fan of blogger Hannahrexia889. Hannah's methods may be harsh, but to these partners on a quest for perfection, "sk...

TES is coming out of anorexia. The rise to the surface is difficult, the body is disordered, no longer responds in the same way. Eat again is to accept to lose control. It is both regaining strength and accepting its vulnerability. But the game is wo...

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....

2-part portrait of a girl suffering from anorexia and bulimia....