Friend Zone
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10 EUR, reduced 5 EUR |
FSK 18, tickets available from end of July |
Entrance: Portal 5 |
Quang Dung Nguyen, Diep The Vinh / Vietnam 2025 / 120 Min. / Romantic Comedy / Vietnamese with English subtitles |
Ground Floor, Schlüter Courtyard |
Belongs to: Box Office Around The World 2025 |
Toan is the type of tour guide who has the hearts of the female tourists flying to him. At the end of the long day’s excursion, he can hardly save himself from advances. But he rebuffs the ladies, saying that a woman is waiting for him at home. However, the woman is not his lover, but his best friend An. Pretty, but completely deranged and desperate, he finds An, who has once again fallen for the wrong man and is terribly heartbroken. Toan knows how to distract and comfort her with routine and ingenuity – it’s not the first time, the two have known each other since school. And have been best friends ever since. And An desperately wants it to stay that way. But Toan wants more – could things finally work out between them after An’s last disaster?
This turbulent love story, which is a remake of a successful Thai cinema hit, unfolds against the backdrop of the most beautiful landscapes and sights in Vietnam, fantastically exaggerated insta-staging and glorious tourist excesses. And it could actually be set anywhere, yet the local flair makes the film a worthwhile. After all, Vietnam has different customs between lovers and friendships than elsewhere, especially in the border zone between these forms of human affection.
Trailer
Programme
8 pm
Talk with Vanessa Vu (Journalist), Dr. phil. Trương, Hồng Quang (Germanist and literary translator) and Dorothee Wenner (moderator)
in German
9 pm
Film screening
Participants
Partner
We warmly thank Trương, Hồng Quang
With kind support of Vereinigung der Vietnamesen in Berlin & Brandenburg
