Bunnylovr Sundance Review — Katarina Zhu’s Directorial Debut is Simple

Sundance 2025 Review: Bunnylovr

In her small apartment, Rebecca (Katarina Zhu), is working from home.  Living in Brooklyn, she has a side gig to make ends meet, as a ‘cam girl’ where audiences pay for her online company.  She doesn’t meet up with the men she meets online, but occasionally she’ll take a private chat for an extra fee. […]

Bunnylovr (2025) Review: A Messy Look At A Messy Life

In Bunnylovr (2025), the directorial debut from writer-director and star Katarina Zhu, physical intimacy and the illusion of it become a way to find some semblance of self for Rebecca, an aimless Chinese-American cam-girl. She uses the distance of a screen to connect to lonely men and has worked to ensure that her boundaries are set in stone. But as Rebecca hits her self-destruct button, John (Austin Amelio), one of her viewers who isn’t interes…

Sundance Review: Bunnylovr is a Compelling, Messy Character Study in Social Isolation

Sensitive and nuanced, Katarina Zhu’s directorial debut Bunnylovr is a compelling character study that never quite makes sense of the messy life of personal assistant by day / cam girl by night Becca (Zhu). Perhaps that is the point, although the film often edges close to something fascinating only to backpedal––perhaps a feature more than a flaw of Becca, a millennial who finds herself stuck. She’s initially drawn to a mysterious client who fir…

Bunnylovr Sundance Review — Katarina Zhu’s Directorial Debut is Simple

The Sundance Film Festival offers an exciting in-person experience for all of their films, but to access the demand from people with busy schedules or those unable to make it to Utah for the festival, they’ve recently put their films online. Bunnylovr is the exact type of movie that fits into this new change. It’s a contemplative film about modern digital sex work that feels as aimless as its main character. Bunnylovr Sundance Review Zhu stars i…