14.6, 24:15, CINEMTHEQUE 1
18+
How to be a porn star
Dir: Guy Shoval
The movie describes the director’s learning process of how to film and act in a gay porn movie. By documenting the process the porn is being deconstructed and exposed as a technical mechanism.
Israeli Transsexual Mycam
Dir: Mor Vital
ישראל, 2013, 15 דקות, עברית עם תרגום לאנגלית
הסרט מדבר על תעשית מצלמות הסקס בישראל, פלטפורמה מאוד גדולה בשנים האחרונות בעולם הסקס הוירטואלי. הסרט מתאר יממה בחיי בנות יועצות המין טרנסג’נדריות והנושאים שמעסיקים אותן כמו: רגשות , זוגיות , שיגרה , עתיד וסקס. הסרט כולל …

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 …

Cinematheque 1

16:00
Mixed Kebab

18:00
Facing Mirrors

20:00
North Sea Texas

22:00
Five Dances

24:15
Gay Sexy Shorts

Cinematheque 4

16:00
I Do

18:00
Four

20:00
The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had With My Pants On

22:00
SUBMERGE

24:00
Lose Your Head

Cinematheque 5

16:30
Mom and Dads
NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES

18:00
  Satan’s Angel: Queen of the Fire Tassels

20:00
I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole

22:00
Mondomanila

24:00
That’s Gila, That’s Me

LGBT Center

13:00
That Man: Peter Berlin

21:00
One Night Stand        

13.6, 20:00 LGBT CENTER

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 …

12.6 21:30
LGBT CENTER
Chris
dir Don Baps, 2009, Canada, 4 min. In this reflection on desire, the cisgender filmmaker recounts his first romp with a trans guy.
Trandroids
Dir: Britt Dunn, USA, 2011, 18 mins
After removing their gender programming, the Trandroids flee underground. But eventually they must choose between the safety of hiding or the start of a revolution.
The Hawker
Dir Elisha Lim & Coco Riot, 2012, Canada, 2 min. “When I was a kid in Singapore, the same person served me chicken rice every day. I didn’t know if that person was a man …

12.6, 22:00
CINEMATHEQUE 4
Dir: Ashim Ahluwalia
India 2012, 110min, Hindu with English subtitles
A fascinating film screened at Cannes, Toronto and Rotterdam, based on a true story that made much media noise in the early 80s in Mumbai. Brothers Vicky and Sonu shoot erotic films at deserted hotels and factories. Debt to the mafia, addiction to drugs and alcohol, a police department sworn to end the porn industry and the body of an actress – all may affect their plan to making it big. The outcome is a daring independent work, which one …

12.6, 22:30
CINEMATHEQUE 3

10.6 18:00 CINEMATHEQUE 4
Dir: Chris Belloni
The Netherlands 2013, 60min, English with no subtitles
In 2012 for the first time in the history of the Gay Pride parade in Amsterdam, a Turkish boat joined. It carried gay Turkish men and women living in the Netherlands. Among them were Don and Serdar, civil rights activists, fighting against the very conservative Turkish community and trying to win over their sympathy. After the parade ended they started receiving hate mail and threats for their lives, only proving how far still is the goal for changing …

10.6, 16:30
Cinematheque 4
Director: Omer Yefman, Producer: Ari Davidovich
A personal journey into bisexual being, the film exposes the passionate, wild world found by the filmmaker in documenting his relationship with
Chen, a rising rock star. Facing the pressure all around him, Yefman tries to find a way to feel complete without having to explain. Alongside
the personal dilemma is his singular family his brother, sister and their grand childless parents, who are longing for continuity. Like the men he talks to confidentially, they present him with the main conflict in his live. As …