The Boy Who Couldn't Feel Pain | Award-Winning Short Film

In Grants, New Mexico there is a small-town legend of Chester, a street 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.

A Student Academy Award Finalist, this German short is a big-hearted and romantic tall tale set on the vanishing American frontier.

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*_The Boy Who Couldn't Feel Pain_*
A film by Eugen Merher
https://www.eugen-merher.com/
https://www.instagram.com/eugendirector/

" _The Boy Who Couldn’t Feel Pain_ is an ambitious and big-hearted story that admirably straddles the tricky divide between realism and fantasy. It aims for big emotional swells, and largely earns them, telling a nostalgia-tinted tale that speaks to the larger-than-life sensibility that is core to America’s self-conception.

The film, true to form as a tall tale, starts with a narrator. 16-year-old Annie is new to town and though she comes to play a leading role in the story, first she introduces us to Chester, our titular boy. “He was not the prettiest, nor the smartest guy in town,” she intones gravely, “but he sure as hell was the toughest. For when he was a young boy, he saw something so deeply disturbing, so gut-wrenching, that he stopped feeling anything.” - S/W Curator, Jason Sondhi

READ THE FULL REVIEW: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2023/09/07/boy-couldnt-feel-pain/
*CREDITS*

MAIN CAST
Catfish Jean (Chester)
Delilah Napier (Annie)
Dylan Sprayberry (Nelson)
DJ “Dawda” Jallow Jr. (young Chester)

CREW
Mortimer Hochberg (cinematography)
Ryan Bernard Tymenski (casting director)
Milo Koleske (costume design)
Alexander Antholzner (production design)
Sarah Heidelberger (sfx make up & hair)
Ernst Lattik, Maximilian Merth (editing)
Alexander Wolf David (music composition)
Floyd Fürstenau, Paul Powaljaew, Robin Harff (sound design)
Marc Angele, Deli Creative Collective, zornshot GmbH (VFX)
Manuel Portschy (color grading)
Reproduced on this channel with the permission of the filmmakers.

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