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"En eftermiddag" or "An Afternoon" is a Danish 8-minute short film from 2014, so still fairly recent. It is about two teenage boys and one of them is in love with the other or lets say has a crush on the other as the other guy knows nothing yet about his (bad?) luck. The writer and director if this award-winning short film is Søren Green and I think overall, he did not come up with a quality film here. Ihad a problem with realism again, which is the major issue for most gay-themed short films. In their desperate attempts for happy ending, the frequently sacrifice realism completely. This is not the case here, but it still struggles in that area. The scene I am talking about is the one when one of the boys says about a girl on Youtube how hot she is. of course, he does that the very moment when the other one is about to confess his attraction to him. Oh well.. Imagine you are male and you are at a cute girl's place. You have a crush on her and what would you do? Would you say about a guy on the internet how handsome he looks? Seriously? All in all, this was not a good work, even if the acting by the duo is bearable, especially the one with the darker hair. But it's not good enough to make up for the flaws. Thumbs-down, not recommended.