Straight (Nicolas Flessa film)

Infobox Film
name = Straight
director = Nicolas Flessa
producer = Alexander Salokin (producer)
Piera Pos (executive)
writer = Nicolas Flessa
starring = Beba Ebner
Eralp Uzun
Florian Sonnefeld
Oktay Özdemir
Özgür Ozata
Hakan Can
music = Boris Bojadzhiev
cinematography = Giuseppe Vaccaro
editing = Nicolas Flessa
distributor = Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH (Germany)
runtime = 60 min.
country = flagicon|Germany Germany
language = German
imdb_id = 1210107

"Straight" is a 2007 German film by director Nicolas Flessa.

ynopsis

The young German-Polish Jana does everything possible to give the impression of a straight acting woman. Her good-looking, bourgeois friend David and her pretence to work for a newspaper are attempts to hide her inner conflicts and her true occupation of a social worker in the low-prestigious Berlin district of Neukoelln.

But there is the young German Turk Nazim, who also tries hard to keep up the appearance of straightness. Night after night he goes out with his homies, dances with girls like Jana and deals with drugs on Hermann Square. Neither his best buddy Akin nor his playmates are suspicious.

Since his nocturnal encounter with a young German guy on Sonnenallee it has got more difficult for him to keep up the façade of normal life. This is the beginning of a love triangle that is dangerous for the self-understanding of all parties: because Nazim's new lover is noone else but Janas boy friend David...

Cast

Critical response

* "Especially worth seeing..." (Zitty Berlin)

* "Director Nicolas Flessa is convincing with sharp talent for observation and authentic atmosphere..." (Verzaubert)

* "Uzun's breakthrough role." (Most Beautiful Man)

* "Full of verve and totally juiced, ... this edgy German drama literally pulses with sexual energy." (Scott Cranin)

Festivals

* Verzaubert Film Festival (Munich/Berlin/Frankfurt/Berlin, Germany)
* Pink Apple Festival (Zurich, Switzerland)
* New York LGBT Film Festivals (New York City, USA)
* Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Philadelphia, USA)
* Perlen Filmfestival (Hannover, Germany)

Music

In addition to the soundtrack of Boris Bojadhziev the Berlin Band Kitty Solaris contributed some songs to the film:
* Songs In The Radio (from the album Smells Like Summer, 2004)
* Changing Cards (from the album Future Air Hostess, 2007)
* Permanent Vacation (from the album Different People Recording, 2003)

External links

*imdb title|id=1210107 |title=Straight
* http://www.straight-derfilm.de/
* http://www.verzaubertfilmfest.com/pages/filme.html
* http://www.pinkapple.ch/2008/php/detail.php?id=167&ort=zuerich
* http://www.myspace.com/kittysolaris