''Teenage Kicks'' is an Australian drama film, directed by

Craig Boreham Craig Boreham is an Australian film director, producer, and writer. Career To date, Boreham has focussed his attention on short film works that explore issues of marginalised sexuality and the politics of desire. Craig Boreham graduated from bo ...

and released in 2016. The film stars Miles Szanto as Miklós Varga, the son of Hungarian immigrants to Australia who is struggling to come to terms with his sexual attraction to his best friend Dan ( Daniel Webber) in the wake of having been indirectly responsible for his older brother Tomi's (Nadim Kobeissi) accidental death.Erin Free
"Craig Boreham: Teenage Kicks At Mardi Gras"
'' Filmink'', 21 February 2017. The film's cast also includes

Shari Sebbens Shari Sebbens is an Aboriginal Australian actress and stage director, known for her debut film role in '' The Sapphires'' (2012), as well as many stage and television performances. After a two-year stint as resident director of the Sydney Thea ...

as Annuska,

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as Phaedra, Tony Poli and Anni Finsterer as Miklós's parents Viktor and Illona, and Ian Roberts as Dan's father Jack. The film was compared by some film critics to '' Head On'', the 1998 film about a gay

Greek Australian Greek Australians ( el, Ελληνοαυστραλοί, ) are Australians of Greek ancestry. Greek Australians are one of the largest groups within the global Greek diaspora. As per the 2021 census, 424,750 people stated that they had Greek an ...

man. The film premiered in June 2016 at the 2016 Sydney Film Festival. Szanto won the award for Best Performance in a Male Role at the 2017

Iris Prize The Iris Prize, established in by Berwyn Rowlands of The Festivals Company, is an international LGBT film prize and festival which is open to any film which is by, for, about or of interest to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex au ...

festival. Composer David Barber received an AACTA Award nomination for Best Original Music Score at the

6th AACTA Awards The 6th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (generally known as AACTA Awards) are a series of awards which includes the 6th AACTA Awards Luncheon, the 6th AACTA Awards ceremony and the 6th AACTA International Awards. The forme ...

, and Boreham received an Australian Directors' Guild nomination for Best Direction in a Feature Film."2017 Australian Directors’ Guild Awards: Nominees Announced"
''Screen Realm'', 6 April 2017.

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* 2016 films Australian coming-of-age drama films Australian LGBT-related films 2016 LGBT-related films LGBT-related drama films LGBT-related coming-of-age films Gay-related films 2010s English-language films Films directed by Craig Boreham 2010s Australian films {{2010s-Australia-film-stub