STAR BOYS

KAIKEN SE KESTÄÄ

By Visa KOISO-KANTTILA

SILVA MYSTERIUM - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2017

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

Festivals
& Awards

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
    • 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.