
I’m A Child Anorexic
A group of children with severe anorexia enter a 12-week treatment programme, filmed over four months as they move from dangerously emaciated, malnourished states toward a healthy weight. The camera follows their own video diaries alongside conversations between the kids themselves, catching how they talk to each other about food, dieting, and fat when adults are not steering the discussion. Parents sit in on some of these exchanges, and the film traces how magazines, television, celebrities, and peer pressure have shaped what these children believe a body should look like. The treatment scenes show meals as confrontations, weigh-ins as high-stakes moments, and small gains in weight treated as genuine victories. The film does not close on a tidy recovery: it leaves open whether the shift in attitude these kids show inside the programme survives contact with home, where the same magazines, the same peers, and the same pressure to stay thin are waiting for them.