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Heartstone

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Dekkoo Selects: First Kiss • Drama, LGBT, Romance, L (Coarse Language), S (Sexual Content), V (Violence), TV-MA

The years-long friendship between two pre-teen boys in a small Icelandic village is threatened when they strike up romantic relationships with a pair of local girls in this affecting and beautifully crafted debut feature from director Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson. Evincing a real feeling for how kids relate to one another, 'Heartstone' offers up a piercingly honest queer coming-of-age story.

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Iceland, frienship, gay cinema, love triangles, affairs, closeted men, coming of age, Icelandic, schoolboys, dekkoo, Hjartasteinn, subtitled, teens, gay teens, kids, friendship, questioning, closeted, puberty, bullying, fishing, truth or dare, sleepover, first kiss, ocean, beach, camping, horses, LGBT, self harm advisory, domestic violence advisory, homophobia advisory, nudity advisory, rear nudity advisory, frontal nudity advisory, smoking advisory, animal corpse advisory, animal cruelty advisory, reference to self-harm advisory, gun violence advisory, gore advisory, child endangerment advisory
Cast
Baldur Einarsson Þór
Blær Hinriksson Kristján
Diljá Valsdóttir Beta
Katla Njálsdóttir Hanna
Crew
Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson director
Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson writer

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