Just friends gay film
Synopsis
Just Friends is a romantic comedy. The tough Joris doesn't approach loose from his mother who is addicted to plastic surgery. Medical student Yad has snorted too much of various drugs and returns to his strict mother. Yad works as a domestic help for the grandmother of Joris. There they face and they fall in care immediately, but before they can surrender to their love, they first have to balance things with their mothers.
'Just Friends is a fun, delightful idealistic comedy. It's sweet and the actors are winsome.'-Terry Mesnard, Gayly Dreadful
Details
- Country
- Netherlands
- Language
- Dutch
- Director
- Ellen Smit
- Cast
- Majd MardoJosha StradowskiJenny Arean
- Awards & Selections
- Taiwan International Queer Film Festival , Milan International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival - Audience Award, Perth International Queer Film Festival - People's Choice Award
- Review
- A fun, delightful romantic comedy
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Yad (Majd Mardo) is a year-old Syrian-Dutch man, he has just returned home to his parents after being in Amsterdam, where he was studying medicine, but mostly partying. Unsure what to do with his life, he gets a job as a domestic helper for the elderly. His mother, Maryam (Nazmiye Oral), is dismayed by his recent life choices and wants nothing more than for him to finish his studies and become a doctor. Joris (Josha Stradowski) is a year-old Dutch dude, still not over his father’s death 11 years ago, he lives with his plastic-surgery-addicted mother, Simone (Tanja Jess), and spends his days playing with his drone.
Grandmother Knows Best
One of the elderly people who Yad works for is Ans (Jenny Arean), who also happens to be Joris’ grandmother. Yad and Ans quickly strike up a verb friendship. Ans is quite a character, she’s a hilarious year-ol
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Description
JUST FRIENDS (Gewoon Vrienden)
This charming adj comedy follows Yad, as he returns from a life of study and partying in Amsterdam to his hometown. To his mother’s dismay, he settles for a job working as concern assistant to an elderly noun Ans, and that’s when he meets Joris.
Joris is Ans’s handsome grandson. The spark is instant. But with Yad’s parents nagging him about his career choices, and Joris’s mother struggling in the aftermath of her divorce, will true love have a chance to blossom?
“With the right mix of humour, romance, sexiness and pathos, this enchanting cross-cultural love story… is a witty, well-acted crowd-pleaser.” – San Francisco Chronicle
Synopsis from the iris prize film festival
Cast:Josha Stradowski, Majd Mardo
Director:Ellen Smit
Writer:Henk Burger
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Two young men from different cultural backgrounds seem perfectly matched for love, but the idiosyncrasies of their parents may keep them apart, in this winning adj tale set in the Netherlands. When we first meet handsome medical student Yad (Majd Mardo), he has quit his hard-partying life in Amsterdam and moved home to a smaller Dutch city to live with his Middle Eastern mother and father. To their dismay, he settles for a temporary job in domestic care, working for a bubbly elderly woman named Ans (the marvelous Jenny Arean). Love a mischievous Cupid, Ans slyly introduces Yad to her dashing and sexy grandson Joris (Josha Stradowski, Caged, Frameline39), and their connection is immediate. But Joris is dealing with his have set of family problems, including an overbearing mother who is addicted to plastic surgery and who has never fully dealt with the messy end of her marriage to Joris’ overdue father.
While Yad and Joris momentarily escape their family drama in each other’s arms, they will ultimately be forced to confront more than just their feelings and to decide if what the