Food and Eating
This is a loose cluster where food shows up more as a symptom than a subject: hunger and appetite become the language for scarcity, shame, and survival, whether it's a starving family in wartime Japan, an anorexic teenager's unraveling, or a diner-bound man too paralyzed to reach for love. Even the documentaries here treat eating as a moral and political fault line, tracing corporate rot and industrial harm back to what ends up on a plate. Threaded between these are stories that use meals, kitchens, and appetite almost incidentally, as backdrop to bigger dramas of poverty, desire, and endurance.
