My Skinny Sister

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My Skinny Sister (Min lilla syster) is a 2015 Swedish drama directed by Sanna Lenken. It stars Rebecka Josephson as Stella and Amy Deasismont as Katja. Lenken has personal experience with eating disorders, having struggled with anorexia as a teen and making an earlier short film on the topic. The story follows Stella as she starts adolescence and discovers that her big sister Katja, her role model, is hiding an eating disorder, a problem that slowly tears the family apart. Critics noted that the film mixes some humor with a serious issue, but it can feel like a moralizing after-school special. The movie won the Crystal Bear at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Gothenburg Film Festival.