The latest collection of short films from NQV Media is Boys Feels: Stand By Me.

The films

IT WAS DARK (Il faisait noir) dir. Miwako van Weyenberg

Nicolas and Victor are twelve year old twins who, despite their different characters, have a unique connection. At school however, their differences cause problems that make them drift apart.

• ​WRITTEN BY: Miwako Van Weyenberg
• CAST: Robbe De Laet, Wouter De Laet, Steve Aernouts, Circé Lethem

SUSPENDU dir. Elie Grappe

At dawn, in a great classical dance conservatory, a boy falls while rehearsing some movements. Something breaks in his foot, causing sharp pain. But it’s exams day and the boy refuses to quit: he tries to face his dance partner and classmates, convincing himself his body has no limits.

• WRITTEN BY: Elie Grappe
• CAST: Erwan Jeammot, Julia Petit, Max Ricat

KEEP GOING (一直騎呀一直騎) dir. Ya-Yu Lin ​

Elementary school brothers Shan and Jia embark on a simple mission that only a child could appreciate the severity of in this freewheeling, carefree school yard tale. Because Pei-Lin, Shan’s crush, is going to move away soon, they make a promise of exchanging their favourite signed baseballs. Meanwhile, Jia has lost his brother’s signed ball, leading the pair of them to a nearby park to begin the operation of finding it before they are due back at school around sunset.

• WRITTEN BY: Yayu Lin
• CAST: Tseng-Wei Wang, Zhi-Xuan Wu, Ariel Lee

HEADBUTT dir. Daan Bunnik

Headbutt portrays the desire of fifteen-year-old Tobias to restore the old relationship he had with his older brother Lucas, who no longer has any interest in him.

• WRITTEN BY: Daan Bunnik
• CAST: Nils Verkooijen, Felix Osinga

OUT OF THE BLUE (Ud af det blå) dir. Mathias Broe

Once again Mads is forced to walk home because his big brother, Anders, is running late. Finally Anders arrives, but during a stop on the drive back home to their father, Mads is confronted with the questionable path that Anders is heading down.

• WRITTEN BY: Mathias Broe, Anders Jeelsmark Mortensen
• CAST: Jonathan Høgsberg Bandier, Sebastian Bull Sarning, Jonas Lindegaard Jacobsen

MARS COLONY dir. Noël Fuzellier

Sixteen-year-old Logan is an adolescent uncomfortable in his own skin. Only his science fiction dreams of a better life on Mars draw him away from his ordinary life, which is as equally difficult at home or at school, where he’s only seen as an aggressive loser. One evening, he receives a visit from a mysterious man who insists that he has come from the future and that he is also Logan, but forty years older. He then asks the younger Logan to carry out a mission as unexpected as it is important: to save humanity.

• WRITTEN BY: Noël Fuzellier
• CAST: Théo Van de Voorde, Philippe Rebbot, Jean-Benoît Ugeux

Boys Feels: Stand By Me is distributed by NQV Media

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