International documentary film festival
April 14 - 21, 2024
Kaptol Boutique Cinema, Zagreb

Boyz (Boyz)

Sylvain Cruiziat

Boyz

Boyz follows three Gen Z boys through the day and night of their student life in Munich. Slowly, the three friends begin to move in different directions, pursue individual goals, develop their own values. And yet they all share a common challenge: the search for recognition, love and sex. Their special intimacy with each other seems unaffected by taboos and stereotypes of becoming a man, so the three boys cuddle in the daybed as a matter of course and introduce us to a new concept of male friendship. With humour and lightness, the film celebrates the last weeks of a shared youth in a musical, fast and colourful way. With an affectionate look at the young protagonists, we look behind the façade of penis jokes at the real insecurities of young men – and thus a little bit at ourselves.

Germany 2023, '72

DIRECTOR: Sylvain Cruiziat

CAMERA: Nikolai Huber

MONTAGE: Felicitas Sonvilla

PRODUCERS: Jonas Egert, Sylvain Cruiziat

PRODUCTION: Madfilms

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

IDFA: Special Mention (2023)
Filmfest Munich (2023)

Sylvain Cruiziat

Sylvain Cruiziat

Sylvain Cruiziat was born in 1995 in London. He graduated from the German School London in 2014, before enrolling into the Documentary and TV Directing Department at the University of Television and Film Munich, where he made the award-winning short Find Fix Finish (2017) with Mila Zhluktenko.

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