《选择地球的男孩》是一部由奥地利地区于2018年出品的短片类电影。该片由拉夫·迪亚兹担任编剧，拉夫·迪亚兹亲自指导拍摄。主要演员包括Sid Miles Garcia、Satya Paningbatan等奥地利著名影星。
In his trailer for the Viennale, THE BOY WHO CHOSE THE EARTH, L* Diaz tells the story of a boy who has aspirations – he educates himself and forges plans. One day there’s a knock on the door, someone le*es and he is literally left out in the rain. Thunder cracks and lightning flashes, water pelts down and engulfs everything. Incredulously, the boy looks up to the he*ens – is this supposed to be his destiny? THE BOY WHO CHOSE THE EARTH is probably the shortest film L* Diaz has ever made – a grain rich in meaning. (V'18 Trailer: THE BOY WHO CHOSE THE EARTH von L* Diaz）The idea of commissioning L* Diaz to direct a two-minute trailer might sound like a cinephilic jest. But the result of this experiment in contrasts is a dense, evocative short film that tran*its layers of narrative and mystery in its brief run time. Aesthetically speaking, THE BOY WHO CHOSE THE EARTH resembles some of Diaz’s early shadowy black-and-white works, albeit marked by a somewhat softer, finer touch. While maintaining a focus on the relations of family, and the importance of place, its tone departs starkly from Diaz’s often wrenching epic-realist sensibilities. It involves a young boy, an anonymous son, who lives seemingly self-sustained in what might be the present and might be the end of the world. He is alone amid an ostensibly functional, if precarious universe. His occupations form a picture of early subjectivity – and a prompt to explore, from the inner self to an ever-obscured life outside. (Rachael A. Rakes)