GOETHE FILMS @ TIFF Lightbox is looking at love from all sides with five recent young films on 7+9+14 March 2023. $10 tickets on sale now. We're launching the series with a radical Berlinale 2020 hit: In his autobiographical directing debut NO HARD FEELINGS, Faraz Shariat, born in 1994, tells an authentic and at the same time fantastically exaggerated story about the queer adolescence of a second-generation Irani-German millennial – and thus provides a resolute counter-draft to conventional German cinema, in which post-migrant experiences and stories of immigrants and their families are all too often excluded or misrepresented.
Wednesday, March 1. 2023
Why you want to watch… No Hard Feelings
GOETHE FILMS @ TIFF Lightbox is looking at love from all sides with five recent young films on 7+9+14 March 2023. $10 tickets on sale now. We're launching the series with a radical Berlinale 2020 hit: In his autobiographical directing debut NO HARD FEELINGS, Faraz Shariat, born in 1994, tells an authentic and at the same time fantastically exaggerated story about the queer adolescence of a second-generation Irani-German millennial – and thus provides a resolute counter-draft to conventional German cinema, in which post-migrant experiences and stories of immigrants and their families are all too often excluded or misrepresented.
For its sensitive, pop cultural and powerful plea for diversity, NO HARD FEELINGS was awarded Best Feature Film at the FIRST STEPS Award, Germany most important film prize for young filmmakers. Faraz’ cast – Banafshe Hourmazdi, Eidin Jalali, Benjamin Radjaipour – was honoured with the Götz-George Young Talent Award. The film premiered at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Teddy Award for best LGBTQ-themed feature film. At Toronto's 2020 Inside Out Film and Video Festival, it was named the winner of the award for Best First Feature Film.
NO HARD FEELINGS was co-created by JÜNGLINGE, a film collective of mid-twenties raised in the hybrid cultures of post-migrant Germany. They believe that young, European film needs to tell queer, diverse and most of all political stories about growing up and living together in our societies. Working on the edge of fiction and documentary storytelling, they indulge in an aggressive pop imagery that gives their stories a current look and feel.
Viewer discretion advised.
image courtesy Juenglinge
NO HARD FEELINGS was co-created by JÜNGLINGE, a film collective of mid-twenties raised in the hybrid cultures of post-migrant Germany. They believe that young, European film needs to tell queer, diverse and most of all political stories about growing up and living together in our societies. Working on the edge of fiction and documentary storytelling, they indulge in an aggressive pop imagery that gives their stories a current look and feel.
Viewer discretion advised.
image courtesy Juenglinge
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