Growing Up – Boys

Growing Up - Boys

Growing Up – Boys

Growing Up – Boys
49min | Documentary | 2002

Plot:

This series offers a highly visual insight into the minds and bodies of teenagers and uses their own experiences to track their progress from child to adulthood. The focus is on the boys Jesse, Andy, Mark and Dominic and the girls Sharmaine, Claudia, and the twins Rebecca and Jessica. This series concludes that to become a settled adult, a teenager must grow to be comfortable with his/her body, new identity, and the responsibilities that come with adulthood.

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Sickfuckpeople 2013

Sickfuckpeople 2013

Sickfuckpeople 2013

Sickfuckpeople 2013
1h 15min | Documentary, Drama | 28 April 2013 (Canada)

Storyline:

A documentary triptych about a group of homeless kids, who have survived their drug-addicted childhood, grew up and start to live an adult life. It’s a story about a boy facing the surreal, degenerated society of his native village full of hate and sadistic anger while searching for his mother. It’s a story about a pregnant girl who wants to give birth to her child whose childhood probably will be even worse then hers. But her own sisters are forcing her to make an abortion.

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Fulboy 2015

Fulboy 2015

Fulboy 2015
1h 22min | Documentary, Biography, Sport | March 2015 (UK)

Storyline:

On the verge of achieving his dream career, Tomás allows his older brother Martin Farina an inside look at his life as a professional football player. Martin, never able to fulfill his own dream of playing football, steps into the world of Tomás and his teammates through the lens of his camera. However, the rest of the club has their own opinions, some viewing Martin as an intruder, as he exposes their most vulnerable moments, and their concerns for the future after the game has ended. Fulboy offers an uncensored, confessional look at how the athletes behind the most popular sport in the world behave during their time off the field. At the same time, Fulboy reflexively interrogates Farina’s aesthetic choices and point-of-view, as well as the viewer’s gaze at the male form.

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Muchacho en la barra se masturba con rabia y osadía 2015

Muchacho en la barra se masturba con rabia y osadía 2015

Muchacho en la barra se masturba con rabia y osadía 2015

Muchacho en la barra se masturba con rabia y osadía 2015
19min | Documentary, Short, Biography | March 2015 (Mexico)

Storyline:

Dance and prostitution play the same role for Jonathan’s body; virtuosity, desire, technique, and sex intertwine, granting coherence to a way of life that offers many answers to few questions; a leitmotiv that reconciles opposites and contradictions; answers that are sometimes painful, like all truths.

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Doggers 2015

Doggers 2015

Doggers 2015
17min | Short, Adult | 19 September 2015 (Portugal)

Storyline:

This documentary short film was made in collaboration with Miguel Arroja who had been capturing action on camera since 2001. After he saw my work he wanted to share his precious footage with me. I was impressed with the activities at the place. I went there in 2013 to experience it myself and do more filming.

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Twin Brothers – 53 Scenes in Chronological Order 2011

Twin Brothers - 53 Scenes in Chronological Order 2011

Twin Brothers – 53 Scenes in Chronological Order 2011
Pangpangbröder, 53 scener från en barndom (original title)
1h 20min | Documentary | 30 September 2011 (Sweden)

Storyline:

Gustav and Oskar are twins. Oskar has Achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism. Both have blue eyes and blonde hair. They approach life in different ways. The director, Axel Danielson, have filmed Oskar and Gustav over a ten year period – from nine to nineteen – as they grow up together in an old farmhouse in the country-side, in the very South of Sweden. In 53 scenes in chronological order we follow the brothers through their journey of childhood, adolescence and struggle for identity.

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Pojktanten 2012

Pojktanten 2012

Pojktanten 2012
1h 15min | Documentary | 7 September 2012 (Sweden)

Storyline:

Bath time conversations between Ester Martin Bergsmark and the writer Eli Levén together with the story of Pojktanten – a fantasy world that centres on a person caught between two genders who creates a third in order to survive.

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