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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).

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Top billed cast

Sebastian Hiort af OrnäsMarkus (segment "Boys")
Kristoffer TrigellLukas (segment "Boys")
Max KrauseAdrian (segment "Ioana")
Andi BajgoraAndi (segment "Kiem Holijanda")
Florist BajgoraFlorist (segment "Kiem Holijanda")
Marcus LindgrenTobbe (segment "Boys")
Catalijn WillemsenMother (segment "Tomer and Elias")
Mingus ClaessenAlex (segment "Tomer and Elias")
Noah de CruijfSven (segment "Tomer and Elias")
Emir MušićEmir (segment "Picnic")

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