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Elias develops feelings for his new neighbor Alexander
He soon realizes that he is falling in love for the first time… As we watch this delicate yet optimistic film by Anthony Shatteman, filled with love, sincerity and light, we gradually begin to understand his fears and anxieties…
Movies like Close (2022), Waking Up in Vegas (2023), Monster (2023) etc
Although the Jewish community, black people, LGBTQ+ people are politically active in the twenty-first century and continue to wrest the rights they are born with, reflecting this on the streets goes through a very long and difficult process. No matter for third world countries, how many hate crime attacks have been committed even in G7 countries like the US and the EU in the past year and in many of these attacks the victims were teenagers or children…
are needed for this reason
That is why they are important. To make people feel that they are not alone.
Young Hearts is the first feature film by award-winning short and TV film director Anthony Shatteman
As he said at the Berlinale, he has made a film that he himself would have liked to see when he was young and struggling with his own feelings. I have been waiting for this film for almost 2 years and the wait was worth it …
This is the kind of event that will remain in the history of cinema, with incredibly good performances by Lou Goossens and Marius De Sager, who have never had a cinematic experience before
The world premiere of Young Hearts took place on February 17, 2024 in the Generation 14plus section of the Berlin International Film Festival, and immediately after that critics compared it to Close (2022), considering that I would put this film together with Hjartasteinn (2016) and Noordzee, Texas (2011). With compositions by Ruben De Gesel accompanying Peter Van Kampe’s clever use of the camera, “Junge Herzen” was screened in September 2024 as part of the Queer Film Festival in Germany, but its general world premiere will be in the first weeks of 2025.