Vincent Boy Kars

In this electrifying journey filmmaker Vincent Boy Kars will try to understand in fiction how he became the person he is now, and who he wants to be in the future. The film challenges the very fabric of identity, eagerly pondering the possibilities of personal transformation. Can one truly break free from the weight of their own story?

For a month, the young filmmaker Vincent Boy Kars makes all the decisions for his indecisive friend Metin. The twentysomething Metin doesn’t really know what to do with himself — planning isn’t Metin’s thing. Instead, he wants to make people think about what a successful life entails. Millennials will recognize a lot in Independent Boy, as will anyone who has ever been in their twenties.

Is our life a story? And if so, can we re-write it? In Drama Girl, director Vincent Boy Kars gets a young woman to act out a number of key scenes from her recent past. Perhaps, Kars thinks, this could help her come to terms with certain events. In the meantime, he also gains something: a film that probes how fiction and documentary can learn from one another.

A new generation of young adults grew up with the ease of having the Internet. In the documentary My First Porn Film two guys in their early twenties make a plan to create their very first porn movie. What should that film look like? Hard and aggressive like the porn that they know from the Internet? Or maybe soft, with love and an enticing story as an antidote to all impersonal and ruthless porn which they grown up with?