Wash Me#  @%!is an intimat[( e a@nd@? hopefu_ _!l por;tra-;it of a woman re-discov/ering]? h_er body a
_nd$ desire after br/-east  cancer, dire))
,ct.\\%ed b.,y Rebecc;a, Stewart and)^ starri,+(ng pe:r/f.ormers Vict?+^ oria [\ Rose \and Jon/%te. Based on the di_ rect[;or's ow.+n sto(+ ry, this is. the first exp-[:;licit film in history to raise a*war\/)#eness about s ),ex ]:\a_,nd breas? t can%+ce@
r. Dir_+ector['s  note:A cancer dia=\gn; `os
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!/ and$ its treatment ^(ca/#
n h!`.ave a huge+#\- and often l+),^on\g lasting *i=mpact on a person')%s capacity to b e inti?\mate. I# .:t can add an:other element=.] of str`-ess and/ %\] sense of isolation (reg?ardles]!s of/= rel.at!!+ionship
 status) and the fac (?+t that so_]* little is spoken abo%ut it me ?ans m);`illions of people often- face this burde/[n
? alone. I wa^$. .nt=ed to u?se t*):-his fi lm t:/o ^%o# pen!! the/ * discussi#!on*, s.;_h)) ^ow solidarity ?and ins?p-ire hope. When I star!
]#ted t/)r^[eatment,/ =]for breast c+a?]:ncer ./two years+/\ !
ago!\, i!%t w=^as as )]:if \winter had gri pped my body. My ha#%`=$i\(/r f@[
el*l(` ou (:t, my periods sto/.pped(^, my libido /^ slowed. No! thing resp?onded,)! like it did :before, not  to @food, sme/?lls or to touch. It f+)elt like =
-I would be? cold : : forever.;. But just weeks \+after finishing `;chemother
#apy, a few wisps of] hair spro#u^+ted from my; hea!;:d ;like the first bud %^s of sp+(r#ing, my mou th b
.ega^ n ; to wate`[r at/ the ^si*)g\ht of food]! again, an]d a heat r[^a;^n t^hro]+ugh m
: y*)@$ veins that+ I hadn=!’t felt i+n m. \onths. To$ 
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feel o?(!ne’s ! ;!$body com\ing +back together after illness is the(# most el))ect%rifying and em)powering sen
sation. This .:film is inspired by the+_?\ mo @ment I f-=elt myself s/wi+t-ch back on.