Straight (2007 film)

Straight
Directed by	Nicolas Flessa
Produced by	Alexander Salokin (producer) Piera Pos (executive)
Written by	Nicolas Flessa
Starring	Beba Ebner Eralp Uzun Florian Sonnefeld Oktay Özdemir Özgür Ozata Hakan Can
Music by	Boris Bojadzhiev
Cinematography	Giuseppe Vaccaro
Edited by	Nicolas Flessa
Distributed by	Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH (Germany)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Straight is a 2007 German film by director Nicolas Flessa.

Plot

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 no one else but Janas boy friend David...

Cast

Actor	Role
Beba Ebner	Jana
Eralp Uzun	Nazim
Florian Sonnefeld	David
Oktay Özdemir	Akin
Annabelle Dorn	Julia
Soner Ulutas	Firat
Hakan Can	Orhan
Özgür Özata	Hakan

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)
• Reeling Festival (Chicago, USA)
• Outview Festival (Athens, Greece)
• Chéries-Chéris Festival (Paris, France)

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

• Straight at IMDb
• http://www.straight-derfilm.de/
• http://www.pinkapple.ch/2008/php/detail.php?id=167&ort=zuerich