Sarah Veltmeyer
2021Boys Feels: I Love Trouble
Simon Guélat, Giancarlo Sanchez
Thijs Boermans, Mathieu Lourdel
Whether it's playing games in a military zone, cheating at school tests, crossing borders for cheap thrills or doing whatever it takes to make illicit money - these boys know that with every risk, they move closer and closer to an irreversible jeopardy. Deftly exploring masculinity and peer-pressure, these five coming-of-age tales from France, the Netherlands and Lithuania from burgeoning new filmmakers demonstrate that sometimes young hearts can run dangerously free. The short films are: Gotta (2015); The Last Day of School (2019); Tree House [Cabane] (2016); Gameboy (2014); Pollux (2018).
Boys Feels: I Love Trouble
Boys Feels: Desire in the Dark
Isabella Carbonell, Cleo Julia Mullis
Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs, Kristoffer Trigell
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).
Boys Feels: Desire in the Dark
Kiem Holijanda
Sarah Veltmeyer
Andi Bajgora, Florist Bajgora
When teenager Andi discovers a card of a Dutch porn star in the bedroom he shares with his brother, his obsession to get a phone and access the X-rated content means he doesn't notice that his brother has chosen this day to say goodbye to him.
Kiem Holijanda
Never Forget
Sarah Veltmeyer
Nola Kemper, Richelle Plantinga
Two girls are being locked up on a balcony on a hot day, while a group of boys is waiting for them at a fair. When their messages become more and more searing, the balcony changes into a save space that the girls
Never Forget
