Faraz Shariat

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Faraz Shariat (* 1994 in Cologne ) is a German film director , screenwriter and film producer of Iranian origin.

Life

After his first directing and acting work at the Schauspiel Köln, Faraz Shariat, born in Cologne in 1994, began studying scenic arts at the University of Hildesheim in 2013. This is where the film collective JÜNGLINGE came into being, together with Paulina Lorenz and Raquel Molt.

After a documentary film and a few shorts and advertising films, Shariat made his autobiographical debut feature film, Futur Drei , which is due to premiere in February 2020 at the Berlinale. He wrote the script for the film in collaboration with Paulina Lorenz, who also produced the film together with Shariat in the JÜNGLINGE film collective. Like his protagonist, Shariat was sentenced to 120 hours of community service as a Farsi -German translator after a shoplifting in 2015 , where he met an unaccompanied minor refugee . Futur Drei was recognized as the best full-length feature film at the First Steps Award 2019 . At the beginning of January 2020 the film was shortlisted for the German Film Award .

Awards

First Steps Award

  • 2019: Award for best full-length feature film ( future three )

Berlin International Film Festival

  • 2020 : Awarded the Teddy Award for Best Fiction Film (Future Three)
  • 2020: Received the Teddy Readers' Award (Future Drei)
  • 2020: Nomination for Best Debut Film (Future Three)
  • 2020: Second place in the Panorama Audience Award (Future Three)

Outfest Los Angeles

  • 2020: Award for the best screenplay with the Grand Jury Prize - International Narrative (Futur Drei)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sophia Zessnik: Berlinale director on autobiography: "It was important to set limits" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 23, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on February 24, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Faraz Shariat. In. firststeps.de. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  3. ↑ Future three. In: firststeps.de. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
  4. ↑ Future three. In: filmstarts.de. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
  5. ↑ The Panorama Audience Awards go to Otac (Father) and Welcome to Chechnya. In: berlinale.de, February 29, 2020.
  6. ↑ Prize for the best first film. In: berlinale.de. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  7. ↑ Daniel Reynolds: Outfest Announces 2020 Winners and Surprise 'Encore Week'. In: advocate.com, August 31, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Shariat, Faraz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne