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VERDENSVEVDE KROPPER

Title: Verdensvevde kropper
English title: World Wide Woven Bodies
Year of Release: 2015
Director and screenwriter: Truls Krane Meby
Principal Boy: Heine Dybvik plays Mads
Genre: Coming-of-age, Short
Country of Production: Norway
Length: 15 min
Language: Norwegian
Availability: The director has made his film freely available on Vimeo, here. The film includes English subtitles.

Synopsis
In this fine short film, the discovery of online porn by 12 year old Mads, an early 90s Norwegian boy, creates a new sense of secrets and concealment in his family. When, however, his mother, having discovered that the family computer has been used for accessing porn, confronts him (backed by his hypocritical father), he rather magnificently refuses to accept the sexual shame on offer.

In an interview for TheSkyKid.com, director Truls Krane Meby said the following about the theme of the film: "[Sexuality is] such a ridiculously natural aspect of our lives, yet it causes so much confusion and distress. I just wanted to naturalise it a little in almost an anti-dramatic way of showing sexuality, where the drama rather came from the taboo and shame-infested social interactions around it."

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