Partner: Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
Director:
Eugen Merher
Filmmaker's profile
‘The Boy Who Couldn't Feel Pain’ tells the fictional small-town legend of Chester, a backyard prize fighter who can't feel any pain. When Annie, a bowling alley employee who just moved into town challenges him for a fight, things begin to change.
Duration: 20min.
Country: Germany, United States of America (USA)
Language: English
Year: 2022
Genre: Fiction (Drama)
Topic: Adolescence, Black Humor, Bullying, Childhood, Coming of age, Death, Discrimination, Drugs, Fable, Falling in Love, Folklore, Freedom, Friendship, Grief, Identity, Inspiration, Love, Mourning, Myth, Nostalgia, Otherness, Romance, Rural, Supernatural, Toxic Masculinity, Violence
Director: Eugen Merher
Production company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Writer: Eugen Merher
Cinematographer: Mortimer Hochberg
Editor: Ernst Lattik, Maximilian Merth
Actors: Catfish Jean , Delilah Napier , Dylan Sprayberry
Distributor Company: Philip Chrobot, Sophie Lotsch / Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Student Academy Awards 
Oaxaca FilmFest
Montreal International Black Film Festival
CinéFest Sudbury
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
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