Boys Feels: Desire in the Dark

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Overview

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).

Cast: Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs, Kristoffer Trigell, Max Krause, Andi Bajgora, Florist Bajgora, more

Director: Jure Pavlović, Sarah Veltmeyer, Isabella Carbonell, Cleo Julia Mullis, Simon Pfister

Genres: Drama

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")

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Marcus Lindgren

Tobbe (segment "Boys")

Catalijn Willemsen

Mother (segment "Tomer and Elias")

Mingus Claessen

Alex (segment "Tomer and Elias")

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Noah de Cruijf

Sven (segment "Tomer and Elias")

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Emir Mušić

Emir (segment "Picnic")

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