12 Apr 2021
Synonymous With
A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.
Boys Feels: Desire in the Dark
These five award-winning coming of age short films offer a glimpse of how boys and young men tackle life's difficult desires: confronting one's demons, understanding sexual relationships, gaining the respect of one's father, or simply running away from it all. This is only the start of their complex formative years, where not every question has an answer, and not every answer makes sense. The short films are: Boys [Pojkarna] (2015); Ioana (2015); Kiem Holijanda (2017); Picnic [Piknik] (2015); Tomer & Elias [Tomer en Elias] (2016).
Top Billed Cast
Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs Markus (segment "Boys")
Kristoffer Trigell Lukas (segment "Boys")
Max Krause Adrian (segment "Ioana")
Andi Bajgora Andi (segment "Kiem Holijanda")
Florist Bajgora Florist (segment "Kiem Holijanda")
Marcus Lindgren Tobbe (segment "Boys")
Catalijn Willemsen Mother (segment "Tomer and Elias")
Mingus Claessen Alex (segment "Tomer and Elias")
Noah de Cruijf Sven (segment "Tomer and Elias")
Emir Mušić Emir (segment "Picnic")
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