Elias Anton

Summer 1999 in blue-collar North Melbourne. An unexpected and intense twenty-four-hour romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old Serbian ballroom dancer and his best friend’s older brother. A decade later the pair meet for a bittersweet reunion.

A seventeen-year-old boy struggles to understand and embrace his sexuality as he comes of age in the working class suburbs of Melbourne. A masterfully-crafted feature-length debut from Australian writer-director Gabriel Carrubba, ‘Sunflower’ is a vibrant, sexy and deeply affecting portrait of one young man who finds hope – and himself – in the face of adversity.