The stylish short film October Boy concerns Thomas (Elias Budde Christensen), a shy 14-year-old boy who has just moved to Copenhagen with his mom. Thomas likes to draw, it’s a way for him to escape from the pressure around him. In school he meets Mads and Emma (Noa Risbro Hjerrild and Esther Marie Boisen Berg).
Mads likes Thomas’ drawings, whereas Emma is romantically interested in Thomas and invites him home with her. Just before leaving, Thomas meets Emma’s older brother (Jacob August Ottensten), a young, emerging artist. The meeting changes something within him.
Rumors start circulating about Emma and Thomas – and though he doesn’t deny them, Thomas can’t understand his feelings, how to act in the new school or control the lies he has created to be popular.
A powerful 29-minute coming-of-age drama from Danish director Soren Green, October Boy is film about all the things that change us as people during out adolescence.
Watch the trailer for October Boy below. The full short film is now available on Dekkoo.
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