As Parvis and Amon begin to fall in love, and Bana is faced with deportation, Parvis reckons with all the ways in which he’s similar yet different from his new companions, thanks to nothing but an accident of birth. Later, when a man he meets via a dating app makes a racist comment, an unruffled Parvis puts him in his place - “I’m not into man-child krauts” - and walks out.īut Parvis’s self-assured sense of belonging is unsettled when he’s assigned community service at a refugee detention center, and he befriends a pair of newly arrived asylum-seekers from Iran, Amon (Eidin Jalali) and his sister Bana (Banafshe Hourmazdi). We first meet him when he’s vogueing at a nightclub, his bleached blonde hair and white mesh top sparkling in the strobe lights. Parvis (Benjamin Radjaipour), a young gay man and the son of Iranian exiles in Germany, lives a proud and carefree life.
If you’re looking to watch something off the beaten streaming path this week, take a scroll through “ New Directions: 20 Years of Young German Cinema,” a free online series hosted by The Goethe-Institut.Īmong the gems in the lineup is “No Hard Feelings,” a sweet and sour queer romance from the Iranian-German filmmaker Faraz Shariat. Stream it on the Goethe-Institut website.
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