Dazzling, spooky, and emotionally rich, the feature debut from Australian director Nicholas Verso is a unique coming-of-age tale about teenage former friends whose all-night trek one fateful Halloween night becomes half descent into old fears and nightmares, half reckoning with the future.
The feature debut from Australian director Nicholas Verso takes us on a nocturnal odyssey that slips seamlessly between the familiar and the hallucinatory. Dazzling, spooky, and emotionally rich, Boys in the Trees is a unique coming-of-age tale, a reminder that in order to embrace the fullness of life we must be aware of the proximity of death.