Bunnylovr

86 minutes | 2025 | Fiction | English | No Subtitles
Canadian Premiere

Content Advisory: This film contains scenes of coarse language, racist language, sexual content, mature themes, tobacco use

Rebecca (Katarina ZHU), a young Chinese-American woman drifting through Manhattan’s Lower East Side and Chinatown, leads a quietly fragmented life. She juggles a day job with camming, performing for anonymous clients online—one of whom sends her a bunny and always demands private chats. Around her orbit are an estranged father who sees her as a lucky charm, a close friend who paints her image without fully asking, and an ex-boyfriend who doesn’t realize what he’s left her with. Rendered with a lucid, intimate gaze, this debut feature captures the ache of disconnection and the soft resilience it takes to move through a world that offers little clarity.

Katarina ZHU is an emerging actress, director and writer based in New York City. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2018 with a BFA in drama. In 2021, she was selected as an inaugural fellow for the Women in Film Shorts Lab supported by Google. Her short premiered at the New Hampshire Film Festival. Most recently, she made her directorial debut with Bunnylovr which premiered in competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. As an actress, she can next be seen in Jonah Feingold’s upcoming feature 31 Candles.