Straight is a 2007

2007 in film

This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...

 German

Germany

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 film by director Nicolas Flessa.

Synopsis

The young German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

-Polish

Poles

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 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

Actor	Role
Beba Ebner	Jana
Eralp Uzun	Nazim
Florian Sonnefeld	David
Oktay Özdemir Oktay Özdemir -Filmography:-Television:-External links:...	Akin
Annabelle Dorn	Julia
Soner Ulutas	Firat
Hakan Can	Orhan
Özgür Özata	Hakan

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)
• 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

• http://www.straight-derfilm.de/
• http://www.pinkapple.ch/2008/php/detail.php?id=167&ort=zuerich
• http://www.myspace.com/kittysolaris