The project is inspired by the director’s own youth during his time at a boarding school in southern Germany. Presents the dilemmas of adolescence between cravings to belong to the group and thirst for freedom.
Larissa and her nine-year-old twins arrive from Germany at their father’s paternal home in the Spanish Sierra Morena mountains. Father’s flight was delayed, but the guests are welcomed by his mother and sister. As the scorching hot days go by, everyone tries to relate to each other. — Mubi
On La Gomera, youth ends abruptly at age 16, when teens have to leave this paradise for higher education. This threat looms over a group of skateboarding, flirting friends. In this intimate documentary, everyone is beautiful, almost carefree and above all forever 15.
