Fireworks Logo

Latest Shorts...

  • Chico
  • Last Story on Earth (The)
  • Threaded
  • Bro Down
  • Every Time I See A Cock I Go Funny
  • Bonjour Amour!
  • David Go8lin - Bubblegum
  • Chaser
  • Mis-Angel
  • Bet (The)
  • Dirty Parrots
  • Whale 52 - Suite for Man, Boy, and Whale
  • Inheritance (The)
  • Last Day of Byron Bray (The)
  • Message (A)
  • Alex Julia: Naked in Your Bed
  • Gossip/Clecs
  • All Change
  • Why Did You Invite Me to Your Wedding?
  • No Brainer
  • Surviving Voices: AIDS Caregivers
  • Male Gaze: Goodbye Love (The)
  • Talk Straight, Duda
  • When The Petals Fall
  • Queen Lizzy
  • Inheritance 
  • Seahorse 
  • Bluebird
  • Male Gaze: Courage Under Fire (The)
  • Pang
  • Alec Gaston: Butterfly in a Blackhole
  • Placeholder
  • Something in the Air
  • Male Gaze: Wandering Hearts (The)
  • Sexual Fire
  • So Be It
  • Within
  • Life of Kai
  • Unknown Continent

Whizz Kids (The)

Country: Germany, Language: German, 21 mins

Original Title

Freunde
  • Director: Jan Krüger; Oliver Schwabe
  • Writer: A.M. Homes; Jan Krüger
  • Producer: Almut Konig

CGiii Comment

When boys wrestle, when boys take baths together, when boys kiss...when boys are friends.

It's all perfectly normal.

And then, it can turn really ugly once a girl is involved.

A declaration of love or just a really sick kid?

Powerful stuff.


Trailer...

FREUNDE Ausschnitt from field recordings on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

Two sixteen year old boys, Marcos and Johannes, spend their days racing, wrestling, hanging out, watching videos and playing hide-and-seek at nights. A closeness develops between the two of them, which soon starts to become a calamity to their friendship.

Cast & Characters

Martin Kiefer as Johannes;
Marlon Kittel as Marco;
Rose Bender as Tanja;
Iris Minich;
Britta Jatzwauk;
Benno Gunther;
Nilgen;
Lukas Nilgen;
Ulrike Will