Press Release – TLVFest 2013 – International ProgramPress Release – TLVFest 2013 – International Program
The 8th International LGBT Film Festival will take place this year between June 8- June 17 at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, The LGBT Community Center, and in Tel Hai College. For the first time, it will occur over 10 days, with more than 120 screening slots, including about 80 features and over 100 shorts.
On opening night (June 8), the festival will give an honorary award to Wakefield Poole (77), who is considered a pioneer filmmaker, whose films are considered a revolution in the sexual liberation of the GLBT community. In 1971, Wakefield Poole made history when his pornographic-art film, “Boys in the Sand”, received both commercial and critical success in the U.S. For the first time, respected newspaper, like Variety and the New York Times, wrote reviews of a film dealing with the sex life of the GLBT community. Among his films, we can find the masterpiece “Bijou”, an impressive surrealistic film, which is considered to be one of the most artistic and unique films of the 1970s. In 1974, he created “Wakefield Poole’s Bible” – erotic and beautiful film art, which describes four stories from the Bible form a feminine point of view. In 1985, Poole reinvented himself – attending a French culinary school in New York and becoming the private chef for the designer Calvin Klein. He retired in 2003 and today he lives in Florida. The film festival will show a retrospective of Poole’s films from the 70′s. In addition, the festival will screen a sneak preview of a documentary about Poole’s life and work – “I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole”, by Jim Tushinski. Wakefield Poole and Jim Tushinski will be festival guests.
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The 8th Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, June 8-17, 2013
Opening Film: World Premiere - Snails in the Rain
The first narrative feature film of documentary director Yariv Mozer (The Invisible Men)
Saturday, June 8, 2013, 8pm
The story of the opening film, “Snails in the Rain”, takes place in 1989 in Tel Aviv. Boaz, a young student who is applying for a master’s degree, receives obsessive love letters from an anonymous man. The letters undermines his peaceful life with his girlfriend, and leads him to question his sexual identity. The film is based on a short story by Yossi Avni-Levy, which was first published in “The Garden of Dead Trees”. The lead actors are Moran Rosenblatt (“Lipstikka”) and actor/model Yoav Reuveni. Admittance 18+ only.
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Tel Aviv Cinematheque – 2 Sprinzak st.
Tickets are available at 03-6060800 ext. 9
Wednesday, 22 May, 22:00
Runtime: 110 min
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles.
Director: Yair Hochner
Cast: Dvir Benedek, Guy Zo-Aretz, Liat Akta, Lucy Dubinchik, Miss Laila Carry, Ofer Regirer, Oshri Sahar, Rivka Neuman, Tomer Ilan, Yael Deckelbaum, Yiftach Mizrahi, Yuval Raz
Antarctica follows the physical, spiritual and emotional journeys of a group of gays and lesbians in the non-stop city of Tel Aviv. The movie opens with an unrelentingly graphic multi-screen visceral and visual assault as it depicts a week or month in the nocturnal life of Boaz (hunky Ofer Regirer), clean-cut businessman by day, one night stand sex-maniac by night, who prides himself on the line: “You know how many guys I bring back here?” One hook-up, in particular, jars him. Danny (Yiftach Mizrahi), a sweet, troubled teen, stops Boaz mid-petting and asks if they should talk first, or have coffee.
3 Years Later the mosaic-like plot kicks into high gear as we meet the wonderful cast of characters: Omer (Tomer Ilan), a shy librarian about to hit a milestone: his thirtieth birthday; Omer&supl;s harried lesbian sister Shirley (Lucy Dubinchik) and her on-again/off again girlfriend (Liat Ekta) who owns the local bar; Omer&supl;s slutty friend Miki (Yuval Raz), who cyber-connects with smoldering journalist Ronen (Guy Zo-Aretz) and best-selling author and past-alien-abductee Matilda Rose (Rivka Neuman).
All the characters are hoping for a change, waiting for the light – the light that will thaw their frozen hearts.
“If The Bubble and its director Eytan Fox have made you think some of the best LGBT filmmaking is being done in Israel, Yair Hochner’s Antarctica will completely convince you.” San Francisco Chronicle
“It has the most attractive ensemble cast of any movie at Outfest this year and the sex scenes are so explicit that it was (almost) enough to make me blush.” LA Daily News
“Antarctica is one of the best examples of how to film sex scenes that appeal to a discerning audience . . . The scenes have burning passion without being excessive.” CineQueer
“To be blunt, Yair Hochner&supl;s Antarctica is one of the most striking and original films I have seen in a long time.” NewYorkCool.com
Tel Aviv Cinematheque – 2 Sprinzak st.
Tickets are available at 03-6060800 ext. 9
Saturday, 25 May, 17:00
Dir: José María Goenaga, Jon Garaño
A touching drama that played dozens of festivals world wide and the big winner at the 2011 Toulouse Cinespaña where it won Best Film, Best Actress and Best Screenplay. 70-year-old Axun is a housewife at a conservative Basque village when she receives a surprising phone call from the hospital: her daughter’s exboyfriend is badly hurt at a traffic accident and is in a hospital in a coma. Despite not being in touch with him and maybe because she is bored with her husband and life in the village she decides to go to the big city hospital where she meets Maite, a childhood friend she hadn’t seen in over 50 years. This encounter will spark old suppressed feelings and for the next 80 days they will experience a rollercoaster of emotions.
Spain, 2010, 104 min; Spanish with Hebrew subtitles.
In association with Instituto Cervantes and yes.
2010 Karlovy Vary Film Festival
2011 Palm Springs International Film Festival
2011 Prague LGBT Film Festival – WINNER of
Best Film
TLVFest – The Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival invites you to be a part of the biggest cultural event in the LGBT calendar
In June 2013, TLVFest will celebrate its 8th year and you are invited to take part:
Many commercial companies have chosen to participate in the past and sponsor the festival. Among them: Air Berlin, Lufthansa, yes – Satellite TV, Dorin Frankfurt, The Brown Hotel, Atraf, seret.co.il, mouse.co.il and F/O/D. As well as restaurant such as Reviva and Celia Oley Zion, BBB, Peacock and more.
In 2012, 30000 programs were distributed around the different bars and cultural center inIsrael, as well as inside Ha’aretz newspaper.
Over 13,000 viewers have seen the commercials played before the different films.
Download the 2012 printed program.
For more information please contact production manager
Chen Arieli: +972-(0)52-8757955
chenarieli2011@gmail.com
