SYNOPSIS

As Charly, a young transgender man, is buried under his birth name, Tom, Louise and BB, his queer friends, decide to give him a last faithful memorial in the place where they usually met, Charly’s childhood house on the coast. Unfortunately, his brother, Victor, had the same idea.

INTENTION

Find the Boy is the story of the encounter of two worlds that rub shoulders but do not understand each other, tolerate each other but do not really accept each other. 

The central question of the film concerns the right to dispose of our bodies after death. Who of our intimate friends or our family have more rights to dispose of our memory? 

The suffering of transgender people does not come from their transition but from how the society is looking at them. By portraying the friends as a band on roller skates, it has been an obvious decision for me to give them this image of freedom and self-confidence in their lives and in their choices. For them the transition is not suffering but a gain of power. 

I would like to bring listening where there is still too often rejection. The contrast between the queer gang and the brother enables the parallel experience between the loss of their friend and the feeling of the family. Then by connecting with each other, they will go together towards more understanding and acceptance.

Transphobia often comes from ignorance of the subject. A film may not change the world, but it can help a teenager to recognize himself and feel less alone and a family, a friend to question their relation to trans identities.