Poikien bisnes / All Boys
Markku Heikkinen:
Poikien bisnes / All Boys (Finland, 2009)
72 min. - German, Czech - Finnish subtitles
K-18
All Boys looks at the social and individual impact of the boy porn
industry. It shows men in Europe´s boy porn business struggling with
commerciality and the passing beauty of youth, poverty and the
loneliness of gay consumers. Gay porn is the fastest growing segment
of the entertainment business. The film consists of complementing
episodes that expose the production chain of East European boy porn.
Where do the porn boys come from originally, and how do they work? It
is the poor, uneducated, unemployed young men without strong family
ties or social networks who drift into the porn industry and its ´foster
care´. For some it offers survival and peers in the porn community, at
least for a while – but in many cases the quick, easy money comes at a
high cost in the long run. For consumers porn is mainly entertainment,
but it may often also serve to alleviate the same wounds, the same
loneliness, as in the production side of the business. It is an
exploitation of the lonely on all sides.
Director Markku Heikkinen present for Q&A after the screening
