BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2216@events.nfb.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260726T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260726T143000 DTSTAMP:20260619T231743Z URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/mad-pride-month-film-screening-in-vancouv er/ SUMMARY:Mad Pride Month Film Screening in Vancouver DESCRIPTION:\nDesiring Bodies: Double-Bill Film Screening for Mad Pride Mon th \n\n\n\n\nIn honour of Mad Pride Month\, Cinevolution and Connection S alon are proud to present a double-bill film screening of the NFB short do cumentary\, Am I the Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen? by Eisha Marjara \, and the independent feature film\, Sisters\, by Ying Wang.\n\nExquisite ly crafted and unflinchingly honest\, the films look beyond typical narrat ives about body image and societal beauty standards to shed light on eatin g disorders as reflections of a disordered society within the context of m igration and displacement.\n\nA discussion with the filmmakers will follow .\n\nRegister for your free ticket at Desiring Bodies: Double-Bill Film Sc reening for Mad Pride Month\n\n \;\n\nAm I the Skinniest Person You've Ever Seen?\n\nDirector: Eisha Majara | 2024 | 24 min | Documentary\n\n“ 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 join t diet offered a shared sense of purpose.\n\nBut their carefree project wo uld take a dark turn\, pushing Eisha to the very brink of death. Consumed by anorexia\, she found herself battling her own fragile body—stranded b etween childhood and adulthood.\n\nDecades later\, she revisits her past i n an exquisitely crafted work of auto-ethnography\, evoking her unusual yo uth with aching lyricism. In addressing a tender love letter to the troubl ed girl she once was\, she reaches contemporary audiences with a timely re flection on body image and self-acceptance.\n\nAbout the Director\n\nEisha Marjara has made several award-winning films\, including Locarno’s Pri x de la Semaine de Critique winner Desperately Seeking Helen. Venus (20 17)\, a dramatic comedy\, won the EDA Award for Best Feature at the Whistl er Film Festival and Best Feature Film at Cinequest\, among other accolade s. Her debut YA novel Faerie\, which traces a South Asian teenager's downw ard spiral into life-threatening illness\, budding sexuality and complicat ed recovery from anorexia\, received rave reviews in the Canadian and Amer ican press. She is completing her next feature\, Calorie.\n\nand\n\nSister s  //  Director: Ying Wang | 2005 | 86 min | Drama\n\nIn a sparsely furn ished apartment in an unnamed city\, two sisters live together\, bound by love and fragile dependency. As the younger battles a severe eating disord er\, the older struggles to keep herself—and her sister—afloat. But th e closer she gets\, the more the line between savior and self-destruction begins to blur.\n\nSisters was born from the true experiences of Ying Wan g and her younger sister Jie\, who developed a severe eating disorder afte r immigrating to North America. In 2002\, the sisters began co-writing the screenplay. With the help of friends and their modest savings\, they comp leted the film between 2004 and 2005. Jie portrayed Ping\, a fictionalized version of herself. Acting became a liberating act—her first real chanc e to speak her truth. The film marked the beginning of her slow but steady recovery.\n\nAbout the Director\n\nAs a migrant navigating between cultur es\, Ying Wang is drawn to stories that probe the complexities of humani ty and question accepted narratives. Sisters led her onto the creative p ath as a self-taught filmmaker. From 2007 to 2019\, Ying worked on her sec ond feature documentary\, The World is Bright\, an exploration of immigra tion and mental health through a broader social and political lens. The fi lm received critical acclaim\, winning the Sea to Sky Award at the 2019 Va ncouver International Film Festival and the Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Aw ard at the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival\, and was later nominated for two 2021 Canadian Screen Awards. In 2026\, Ying c ompleted her third feature documentary\, The Border. \n\nACCESSIBILITY\n \nThe theatre is wheelchair accessible and has four wheelchair spots with adjacent companion seats.\n\nUniversal washroom facilities are located on the ground floor\, for use by people of all genders. The washrooms were re novated in 2023 and include private\, single-stall toilets (no urinals). T here is a button-operated motorized entry door\, and two wheelchair access ible stalls.\n\n The main restroom doorway width is 39 inches\n The acce ssible stalls doorway width is 35 inches\n The sink countertop height is 35 inches\n Soaps are scent free\n\nTo discuss your access needs\, please contact us at info@cinevolutionmedia.com.\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://events.nfb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/06 /Am-i_No4_08_37_10-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Free Event,Screenings LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street\, Vancouver\, British Columbia \, Canada GEO:49.2786872;-123.12652079999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1131 Howe Street\, Vancouve r\, British Columbia\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The Cinematheque: geo:49.2786872,-123.12652079999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR