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STAR BOYS

KAIKEN SE KESTÄÄ

By Visa KOISO-KANTTILA

Drama - Completed 2017

Two Finnish boys battle adolescence and family troubles. Meanwhile, their homes are being encroached upon by inevitable urban development.

Moscow IFF 2017

Main Competition

Cape Town International Film Market & Festival 2017

the Accolade of Best Director

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- FINLAND
- Languages
- FINNISH
- Duration
- 82 mn
- Director(s)
- Visa KOISO-KANTTILA
- Writer(s)
- Visa KOISO-KANTTILA
- Cast
- Antti LUUSUANIEMI, Pihla VIITALA, Malla MALMIVAARA, Tomi ENBUSKA, Vili SAARELA, Olavi ANGERVO, Risto TUORILA, Eeva-Maija HAUKINEN, Janne RAUDASKOSKI
- Producer(s)
- Mika RITALAHTI (SILVA MYSTERIUM), Niko RITALAHTI (SILVA MYSTERIUM)
- Synopsis
- STAR BOYS is a powerful story of two families being torn apart by disintegrating moral values when the sexual revolution arrives at a conservative and religious small town in Northern Finland.
  
  The film takes us inside the lives of two families through the eyes of the children, 13-year-old Star boy singers, forced to observe from too close distance the consequences of their parents’ sexual liberation and endless need for love and freedom.
  
  Following a fateful toga party no one and nothing is the same and the boys’ confusion erupts violently.
  
  STAR BOYS, whilst dealing with heavy themes, is ultimately a warm and positive survival story portraying the persistence and capacity of children to get over even most difficult experiences in life.