Dir: Yaelle and Aya Shwed
Yael, a French émigré, follows the sun and finds the love of her life. Her family finds it hard to accept.
45 min, 2011

The Israeli film council is trying for the second time in less than a year to shut down TLVFest – The Tel Aviv international LGBT film festival, by initiating new rules that prohibit financial support of festivals with budgets less than 500,000 NIS.
Some background on the festival history and success:
In just seven years, TLVFest has become one of the most important and critcally received film festivals in Israel. Last year’s festival, held over eight days, showed over 150 features and short films in 76 different programs, and welcomed 30 guest …

Gad Beck, a gay Jewish survivor of the Shoa, passed away in Berlin on June 24, 2012. He was one of the survivors portrayed in the acclaimed documentary “Paragraph 175” about the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany.
Gad grew up in Berlin. As the child of a mixed marriage, he was not deported. He remained in Berlin, where he joined the underground, helping Jews to escape to Switzerland. In his autobiography “An Underground Life – Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Berlin” (1995), he recalls wearing a Hitler Youth uniform …

TLVFest is one of the nominating film festivals for the 2012 Iris Prize – the world’s largest LGBT short film prize at £25,000.
This year’s nominee is the winner of the Israeli Short Films Competition – “Reality Check” by Michal Vinik.

Best Israeli Short Film
Reality Check | Dir: Michal Vinik
Honorable Mention for Israeli Short Film
Crabs in the Sand | Dir: Tom Gerber
 
Best International Narrative Feature
Lovely Man | Dir: Teddy Soeriaatmadja
 
Honorable Mention for International Narrative Feature
The Mountain | Dir: Ole Giaever
Special award for an actor:
Pini Tavger – Slower than a Heartbeat
 
Best International Documentary Feature
The Mouth of the Wolf | Dir: Pietro Marcello
 
Honorable Mention for International Documentary Feature
Look at Me Again | Dir: Claudia Priscilla, Kiko Goifman
Best International Short Film
Law and Order | Dir: Jan Soldat
 
 
 
Honorable Mention for International Short Film
HA(R)D to Say …

The Israeli film council is about to hand the Tel Aviv international LGBT film festival (TLVFest) a disastrous blow.
In just 6 years, TLVFest has become one of the most important and outstanding film festivals in Israel.During its 8 days, this past year’s festival showed over 120 features and short films within 60 different programs, and welcomed 30 guests from all over the world (India, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Greece, Germany, France, UK and USA). Still, keeping over 30 percent of the festival’s content is new Israeli cinema; some of it is …

TLVFest – The most daring film festival in the Middle East will present it’s 7th edition in June 2012 and we are looking for new features and shorts on LGBT issues from all around the world.
If you have new innovative films in any cinematic genre or style including: fiction, documentary, underground, experimental, alternative, music videos, or porn.
We’re pleased to invite you to submit your work to the next Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival to be held 9-16 June, 2012.
Download Submission Form 2012 (pdf, doc)
Festival Address:
Tel-Aviv Cinematheque,
TLVFest – Tel Aviv …

Monday, 15.8.11, 20:00
at The Tel Aviv Cinematheque
2 Sprinzak St, Tel Aviv
Tickets available via phone:
03-6060800 ext. 0

Please Love
Dir: Yaelle and Aya Shwed
Winner of best Israeli short at TLVFEST 2011. A human, emotional and humorous story about Yaelle (a new immigrant from France and a visual artist) and Aya (musician and artist) who decided to allow cameras into their lives in order to document their harmonious day-to-day juxtaposed against the complicated relationship with their parents. The film follows their intimate moments at their Jaffa apartment to their trip to Paris for yet …

TLVFest closing night party will take place at Evita – 31 Yavne St. Tel Aviv
Free chaser to closing night tickets holders (Kaboom movie).
See you there!