In honour of Mad Pride Month, Cinevolution and Connection Salon are proud to present a double-bill film screening featuring Sisters by Ying Wang and Am I the skinniest person you’ve ever seen? by Eisha Marjara.
Exquisitely crafted and unflinchingly honest, the films look beyond typical narratives about body image and societal beauty standards to shed light on eating disorders as reflections of a disordered society within the context of migration and displacement.
Sunday July 26, 2026 | 12:30-3:30pm
The Cinematheque, 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver (map)
FREE Admission. Register Now.
A lyrical work of auto-ethnography, Eisha Marjara’s latest documentary short, Am I the skinniest person you’ve ever seen? traces how a fun summer diet with her beloved sister Seema unfolded into a descent into anorexia and a deadly battle with her own fragile adolescent body, stranded between childhood and adulthood. Ying Wang’s debut dramatic feature, Sisters was inspired by her younger sister’s struggle with severe eating disorders after immigrating to North America. The film follows Ming and Ping, sisters who live together bound by love and fragile dependency, becoming increasingly entangled in a world of obsessions, resentments, and self-destruction.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.
Note: This program contains imagery of anorexia, eating disorder, and self harm.
Am I the Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen?
Director: Eisha Marjara | 2024 | 24 min | Short Documentary
“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. In addressing a tender love letter to the troubled girl she once was, she reaches contemporary audiences with a timely reflection on body image and self-acceptance.
About the Director, Eisha Marjara
Eisha Marjara has made several award-winning films, including Locarno’s Prix de la Semaine de Critique winner Desperately Seeking Helen. Venus (2017), a dramatic comedy, won the EDA Award for Best Feature at the Whistler Film Festival and Best Feature Film at Cinequest, among other accolades. Her debut YA novel Faerie, which traces a South Asian teenager’s downward spiral into life-threatening illness, budding sexuality and complicated recovery from anorexia, received rave reviews in the Canadian and American press. Her latest feature CALORIE starring Ellora Patnaik and Anupam Kher, is a bittersweet drama about a family coming to terms with a real life tragedy.
The film is provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada.
Sisters 姐妹
Director: Ying Wang | 2005 | 86 min | Drama
In a sparsely furnished apartment in an unnamed city, two sisters live together, bound by love and fragile dependency. As the younger battles a severe eating disorder, the older struggles to keep herself—and her sister—afloat. But the closer she gets, the more the line between savior and self-destruction begins to blur.
Sisters was born from the true experiences of Ying Wang and her younger sister Jie, who developed a severe eating disorder after immigrating to North America. In 2002, the sisters began co-writing the screenplay. With the help of friends and their modest savings, they completed the film between 2004 and 2005. Jie portrayed Ping, a fictionalized version of herself. Acting became a liberating act—her first real chance to speak her truth. The film marked the beginning of her slow but steady recovery.
About the Director, Ying Wang
As a migrant navigating between cultures, Ying Wang is drawn to stories that probe the complexities of humanity and question accepted narratives. Her younger sister’s struggle with mental illness after immigrating to North America inspired her debut feature, Sisters, and led her onto the creative path as a self-taught filmmaker. From 2007 to 2019, Ying worked on her second feature documentary, The World is Bright, an exploration of immigration and mental health through a broader social and political lens. The film received critical acclaim, winning the Sea to Sky Award at the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival and the Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award at the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and was later nominated for two 2021 Canadian Screen Awards. In 2026, Ying completed her third feature documentary, The Border, a four-year observation of the microcosm of life unfolding around Peace Arch Park as a petri dish for the geopolitical complexities of global migration.
Accessibility
The theatre is wheelchair accessible and has four wheelchair spots with adjacent companion seats.
Universal washroom facilities are located on the ground floor, for use by people of all genders. The washrooms were renovated in 2023 and include private, single-stall toilets (no urinals). There is a button-operated motorized entry door, and two wheelchair accessible stalls.
- The main restroom doorway width is 39 inches
- The accessible stalls doorway width is 35 inches
- The sink countertop height is 35 inches
- Soaps are scent free
To discuss your access needs, please contact us at info@cinevolutionmedia.com.
Acknowledgements
This Mad Pride Month program is co-presented by Cinevolution and the Connection Salon, with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Film Board of Canada.