Boys Feels: Desire in the Dark (2021)
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).
Directors: Isabella Carbonell, Sarah Veltmeyer, Jure Pavlović, Cleo Julia Mullis, Simon Pfister.
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Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs as Markus (segment "Boys") |
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Kristoffer Trigell as Lukas (segment "Boys") |
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Max Krause as Adrian (segment "Ioana") |
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Andi Bajgora as Andi (segment "Kiem Holijanda") |
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Florist Bajgora as Florist (segment "Kiem Holijanda") |
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Marcus Lindgren as Tobbe (segment "Boys") |
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Catalijn Willemsen as Mother (segment "Tomer and Elias") |
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Mingus Claessen as Alex (segment "Tomer and Elias") |
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Noah de Cruijf as Sven (segment "Tomer and Elias") |
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Emir Mušić as Emir (segment "Picnic") |
| Writing | Džejna Avdić | Writer |
| Writing | Babak Najafi | Writer |
| Directing | Isabella Carbonell | Director |
| Directing | Sarah Veltmeyer | Director |
| Directing | Jure Pavlović | Director |
| Directing | Cleo Julia Mullis | Director |
| Directing | Simon Pfister | Director |