Westerland
First screened in October 2012
Director: Tim Staffel. Cast: Wolfram Schorlemmer, Burak Yigit, Murat Seven, Jule Böwe, Maxim Mehmet, Janina Suhl, Ronja Asmussen, Tamer Arslan.
Screenplay: Tim Staffel (based on his novel). Twitter Capsule:
Opaque, third-rate Keep the Lights On, as sweet Turkish guy strives to "save" bratty dopehead. Grim stabs at allegory.
VOR:①
Granted, some resonances are culturally specific. Even so, the prototype of a festival film that bulks up the LGBT programming but slips from memory within three days.
