My Skinny Sister (Sweden/Germany) 

Eating disorders wreak havoc not just on the bodies of their victims but on entire families. Rarely has a film showed the destructive effects more clearly than My Skinny Sister. It’s told sensitively through the eyes of a younger, chubbier sibling whose loss of innocence entails realizing the high-achieving, figure-skating sister she so looks up to has serious self-destructive tendencies.

The film’s success is in its tight point of view, and the naturalistic performance of the charming tween Stella (Rebecka Josephson). Only someone who had firsthand knowledge of the volatile bond between sisters and the way anorexia gets its claw hold (the director herself suffered anorexia) could portray the issue this insightfully and affectingly.