Gay teen struggles to come out to family

Directed by Clemens Roth · Starring Ishtvan Nekrasov, Tigran Petrosyan, Larissa Tjurde, Oleg Lapochkin · 2017

Fifteen-year-old Stasik lives in a Ukrainian village while his parents work abroad; as they ask him to join them, his secret love for his best friend Vassili forces a hard decision.

A quiet, aching coming-of-age story about a teenage love that can't be spoken aloud.

Fifteen-year-old Stasik is growing up in a village in Ukraine while his parents are away working in western Europe. Now they want Stasik to follow and rejoin them. But he is carrying a secret that weighs heavily on him.

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