Am I the Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen?
Am I the Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen?
dir. Eisha Marjara
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Canada
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2024
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24 min
Film presented in set: Block 1. Short Films
venue
date
time
available
Kinoteka, 2
2025-05-09
18:00
Iluzjon, Mała Czarna
2025-05-11
16:30
Iluzjon, Mała Czarna
2025-05-14
18:00
Eisha and Seema were more than sisters, they were soul mates, and a joint diet offered a shared sense of purpose. But their carefree project pushed Eisha to the very brink of death.
“Hey, let’s go on a diet together.” As kids in a small Quebec town, Eisha and Seema were more than sisters, they were soul mates, and a joint diet offered a shared sense of purpose. But their carefree project would take a dark turn, pushing Eisha to the very brink of death. Consumed by anorexia, she found herself battling her own fragile body—stranded between childhood and adulthood. Decades later, she revisits her past in an exquisitely crafted work of auto-ethnography, evoking her unusual youth with aching lyricism.
- duration:
- 24 min
- country / year of production:
- Canada / 2024
- director:
- Eisha Marjara
- cinematography:
- Ariana Lorrain
- production:
- Joe Balass, Arile Nasr / National Film Board of Canada, Compass Productions
- selected festivals and awards:
- 2024 – IDFA Amsterdam
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