Young Gods
Film - International Program Filmfest 2004

Young Gods

Directed by Jukka-Pekka Siili

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Director: Jukka-Pekka Siili
Section: International Program
Country: Finland
Year: 2003
OT: HYMYPOIKA
Language: Finnish
Cast: Jussi Nikkilä, Reino Nordin, Jarkko Niemi, Jenni Banerjee
18+ (no age rating)

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Young Gods

Taavi is 18, artistic, intense. Jere is a charismatic, smooth-tongued ladies’ man with few moral inhibitions. They set up a club with several other guys their age; the rules are simple. Members must bring a video of their sexual adventures to each meeting. No taboos. What begins as a game soon becomes a dangerous compulsion. Relationships implode, girlfriends are replaced by prostitutes and swingers. As their exploration of playful, exuberant eroticism gives way to darker currents of coercion and abuse, Taavi and Jere, Sami and Markus, are forced to confront their own morality in the viewfinder ...

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Jukka-Pekka Siili