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).
Džejna Avdić
Writer
Babak Najafi
Writer
Jure Pavlović
Director
Sarah Veltmeyer
Director
Isabella Carbonell
Director
Cleo Julia Mullis
Director
Simon Pfister
Director
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")
Anemone59%
The Fabelmans75%
Around the Bend59%
My Own Private Idaho70%
The Client66%
Hellion58%
Firstborn61%
The Indian Runner65%
The Tree of Life67%
Rebel Without a Cause75%
The Beautiful Country59%
The Glass House59%
A Streetcar Named Desire76%
The Cement Garden67%
Boyhood75%
My Father's Shadow74%
C'mon C'mon72%
Last Ride64%
Pretty Boy76%
Brotherly Love70%
