Tobias Kersloot

Whether it's playing games in a military zone, cheating at school tests, crossing borders for cheap thrills or doing whatever it takes to make illicit money - these boys know that with every risk, they move closer and closer to an irreversible jeopardy. Deftly exploring masculinity and peer-pressure, these five coming-of-age tales from France, the Netherlands and Lithuania from burgeoning new filmmakers demonstrate that sometimes young hearts can run dangerously free. The short films are: Gotta (2015); The Last Day of School (2019); Tree House [Cabane] (2016); Gameboy (2014); Pollux (2018).

A truck carrying a Dutch military convoy on a peacekeeping mission breaks down somewhere in the desert. As a group of soldiers waits for a repair team to arrive, they encounter a local boy who refuses to leave.

Kos (13) is going through the most bizarre period in his life. His mother died a few years ago and his dad is having a heart attack. While Kos’ father is in the hospital, it looks like the hotel he is running will be a big mess. But Kos and his three sisters do not intend to let that happen. After the siblings find out that father is deep in financial problems, the hotel is threatened with closure. The children however come up with a solution: someone has to win the local beauty pageant, with a hefty cash prize attached.

When a boy is framed after an act of senseless violence by his friends, they turn against him for trying to tell the truth.

Em 1888, um obstinado fabricante de violino de Amsterdã se vê envolto em perigo e tragédia após desafiar empresários que ameaçam sua comunidade.

A comedy about three woman working at a boring holiday resort and their criminal employer.

Sabine está procurando a verdade por trás do desaparecimento da sua melhor amiga há vinte anos. Um encontro com o belo Olaf, um homem de quem ela se lembra da sua adolescência, e o anúncio de uma reunião do ensino médio coloca a sua vida de cabeça para baixo.

To celebrate their anniversary, a young urban couple spends a weekend on a rural island, only to find its locals don't take too kindly to strangers.

Maarten is an ordinary 16-year-old. He likes to hang around in the park, listen to music, play videogames and dance as much as possible. Preferably with his dance partner Roxanne. But almost nobody, especially not Roxanne, knows he has a metabolic disease that could end his life. Despite the concerns of his parent, Maarten wants to live life to the fullest. But with his body failing him more and more, maybe the time has come to accept he is not ordinary.

Thijs, Tobias, Sjeng, and Tarik break into a house and steal a multitude of their school exams for profit. But in time, as their gain notoriety, the jig is up! But will all four go down, will there be consequences, and will that be all that happens to these rambunctious four young men?

James leva uma solitária vida em um hotel com uma mãe controladora.Tudo muda quando ele vê um grupo de jovens jogadores suecos, e se sente atraído por um deles, que mais tarde é encontrado pelo mesmo na piscina do hotel todo machucado. James o ajuda, levando-o para o quarto. Trancado no quarto com um garoto estranho, James vivencia a complexidade de seus próprios sentimentos e insegurança sexual pela primeira vez...