Amateur Teens

A slow-building, uneasy look at teenage life under social media pressure, leaving a lingering sense of sadness and moral ambiguity.

Directed by

Niklaus Hilber

Genres

Drama

Starring

Fabrizio Borsani, Jérôme Humm, Benjamin Dangel

Tagline

It's only your first time once.

Overview

A group of normal 14-year-old teenagers at a secondary school in Zürich with the normal yearnings for love and acceptance. But the power of social media, with its high-gloss selfies and perpetual pressure towards cooler and sexier, increasingly forces the kids to deny their true feelings. So a tragedy runs its course, one in which it is almost impossible to differentiate between perpetrator and victim, guilt and innocence.

How it feels

Tense, melancholic, dark and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Coming-of-age, identity, isolation, betrayal

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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