LIFE MODELS

Directed by Jean Paulo Lasmar

Cast: Mika

Fine Arts Spotlight, Shorts Competition
Brazil, United States
English
2024
5 mins

LIFE MODELS follows Mika, a breast cancer survivor who rejects reconstruction and chooses to live flat. When she poses nude in a figure drawing class, she confronts her vulnerability, igniting a powerful story of self-acceptance, body image, and identity.

Plays in

Documentary Shorts 2 -Bodies, Work, Becoming

Documentary Shorts 2 is a celebration of resilience, creativity, and the ways people reclaim power, through art, movement,…

Dates & Times

Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium

November 8, 2025
2:45 pm