"Head on" is an extraordinarily bold tale of one boy's conflict with his background, his heritage and his future. Ari doesn't quite know how to express this turmoil, and he isn't sure about where he's going. And we are a fly on the wall during twenty-four hours of his struggle.

Ari is at that point in his life where he doesn't quite know who he is. He looks at the world and says 'the world is shit'. He sees that it's full of hypocrisy and he asks 'where do I fit into that'. He's struggling with his Greekness, his identity, his sexuality.

But things are never clear cut for Ari. He wants to be connected to his family and yet in order to be true to himself he must struggle and push them away.

He's a complex, contradictory character. Ari's sense of being angry and confused about the world, but at the same time to show that, underneath, it comes from a place of love, of painful connectedness.

Ari's idea of freedom is to be in the moment, to believe in the interaction that's going on. That's why the body, the physical 'being in the moment' is so important for him. But he also believes that to be free he has to keep his secrets, he has to be a chameleon and take on the protective colouring of his surroundings.

This creates enormous conflicts for him and it's these struggles that the film's really about."

Gripping, raw and powerful "Head On" is about a young Greek man's struggle to come to terms with sexuality in his narrow, repressive world.

It is the antithesis to most redemptive "coming out" films: Ari's liberation is in the freedom he finds in forbidden pleasure, in anonymous, sexual encounters with other men.

A good movie that shows the struggle of the young lad. He can't help feeling the feelings that he does but can't accept them because of the culture he lives in.

Alex Dimitriades (Arie) plays a very convincing character and with him the movie is an absolute must see.

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