Fanfic

Fanfic (Fanfik, 2023) — watch online on iFILM — is a Polish coming-of-age drama directed by Marta Karwowska, starring Alin Szewczyk and Jan Cięciara.

Two high-school boys drift toward each other at the moment when neither has a name for what's happening. One writes fanfiction — stories about other people's characters, because his own story is too complicated to tell out loud. Then someone new shows up and makes the silence untenable. Karwowska doesn't explain or soften: the camera stays close and lets the two of them work it out.

Rated NC-17 in the US market, the film earns it through directness rather than provocation. Stream Fanfic (2023) online on iFILM.