SACCHARINE

description

A lovelorn medical student becomes terrorized by a hungry ghost after taking part in an obscure weight-loss craze: eating human ashes.

When Hana runs into an old friend who has lost so much weight she is almost unrecognisable, the first-year medical student is sucked into the world of weight-loss pills, a much quicker shortcut to dropping kilograms than her twelve-week “body transformation” programme at the gym. As her obsession to get slimmer grows stronger, a hungry ghost manifests literally. The Australian modern day body horror written and directed by Natalie Erika James (RELIC, 2020) had its world premiere at the Midnight section of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Sundance 2026
Berlin International Film Festival 2026

DIRECTOR'S BIO
Natalie Erika James is an Australian-American film director and screenwriter, born in the US and raised in Melbourne. She is best known for her psychological horror feature film debut RELIC (2020) and her ROSEMARY'S BABY prequel APARTMENT 7A (2024).