No Hard Feelings (2020 film)

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German Futur Drei
Directed byFaraz Shariat
Written byFaraz Shariat
Paulina Lorenz
Produced byPaulina Lorenz
StarringBenjamin Radjaipour
Eidin Jalali
Banafshe Hourmazdi
CinematographySimon Vu
Edited byFriederike Hohmuth
Music byJakob Hüffell, SÄYE SKYE
Release date
  • 23 February 2020 (2020-02-23)(Berlin)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguagesGerman
Persian

No Hard Feelings (German : Futur Drei) is a German drama film, directed by Faraz Shariat and released in 2020. [1] The film stars Benjamin Radjaipour as Parvis, a confident but immature young man of Iranian descent living in Germany, who commits a minor criminal infraction and is sentenced to perform community service at a refugee detention centre, where he falls in love with newly immigrated Amon (Eidin Jalali). [2]

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The film premiered at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival, [3] where it won the Teddy Award for best LGBTQ-themed feature film. [4] At the 2020 Inside Out Film and Video Festival, it was named the winner of the award for Best First Feature Film. [5]

Plot

Parvis is the son of exiled Iranians and lives with his parents in Hildesheim. He enjoys freedoms that many young Germans can only dream of. His parents accept that he's gay, and he enjoys Grindr dates and late club nights. After being shoplifted, he has to do his 120 hours of community service as a translator in a housing project for refugees. There he is initially eyed strangely because he looks strange with his bleached hair and is not very skilful with some tasks. He also takes part in the talks in which decisions are to be made about their further stay, and translates intentionally incorrectly in order to prevent their deportation.

He meets the Iranian refugee Amon, who is waiting there with his sister Banafshe for their residence permits. Amon is asked by the other young men in the project not to have any contact with the oddball. Amon doesn't immediately understand that Parvis isn't a resident of the project, he's only there for his community service. Amon shares a room with his sister, who quickly notices that her brother likes Parvis and helps them get closer. After a night of partying together, the three go to his house together. Amon helps the completely drunk Parvis bathe, and a first kiss follows. Banafshe learns from her mother the background to her flight and what the new start in Germany was like for her back then. Later she tells her son that they set it all up in Germany just for him.

A project worker recommends a protective marriage to Banafshe because she is threatened with deportation and immediately offers to marry her. On the day that Parvis works on the project for the last time, Banafshe is warned that the police are on their way to arrange for her deportation. She wants to leave the project, but Parvis gets her and her brother out of town first. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Michael-Oliver Harding, "'Activist Popcorn Cinema' is the New Film Genre we Didn't Know we Needed". Vice , March 2, 2020.
  2. ↑ Kiang, Jessica (February 23, 2020). "'No Hard Feelings': Film Review". Variety .
  3. ↑ Sophia Zessnik, "„Futur Drei“ ist die queere Coming-of-Age-Geschichte, auf die du gewartet hast". Die Zeit , February 25, 2020.
  4. ↑ Scott Roxborough, "Berlin: 'Futur Drei (No Hard Feelings)' Wins Teddy Award as Best Queer Film ". The Hollywood Reporter , March 1, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Inside Out LGBT film fest reveals prize winners early". Toronto Star , October 5, 2020.
  6. ↑ Tepper, Jürgen (2003), "Rentenreform vom 1. Januar 1992", Die drei Säulen der Altersvorsorge, Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag, pp. 73–88, doi:10.1007/978-3-322-88935-5_7, ISBN   978-3-322-88936-2 , retrieved 2022-02-08
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