Certe Brutte Compagnie

8.0

Requiem for a Dream

October 2000 •English

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

7.9

Mary and Max

April 2009 •English

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.

0.0

Pullahiiri

December 1988 •English

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.

6.9

Feed

April 2017 •English

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.

9.0

Healer

July 2023 •English

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

6.2

When Friendship Kills

February 1996 •English

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.

7.0

Life Is Sweet

November 1990 •English

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.

5.9

The Fattest Man in Britain

December 2009 •English

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.

10.0

body

Invalid date •Catalan

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.

5.5

guts

January 2024 •English

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

0.0

Bitter Taste

May 2024 •English

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.

0.0

Gaining & Losing

June 2021 •English

What happens to friendship when a shared dream is abandoned? Gaining and Losing explores a friendship torn apart when a young dancer combats an eating disorder and her talented friend can't understand.

0.0

Gorge

Invalid date •English

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.

9.0

PREP

March 2023 •English

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

6.3

Sharing the Secret

May 2000 •English

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

3.5

Bones

November 2020 •Spanish

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.

10.0

Bodywork

October 2022 •English

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.

5.9

River's Edge

February 2018 •Japanese

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

0.0

Yours Are Mine

September 2020 •English

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.

6.6

Swallow

January 2020 •English

Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.