Duration: 75 minutes
Big Gay Drama – Israeli Shorts D
Hearts, Daffodils and Relationships – Israeli Shorts C
.Duration: 95 minutes
Women in the Middle – Israeli Shorts B
Duration: 80 minutes
Israeli Shorts A – Young, Lost, But Not Delusional Women
Duration: 80 minutes
The Swimmer
2.11 – actors in attendance.
Erez, a rising star in the Israeli swimming scene, arrives at a godforsaken training camp held in a boarding school. The winner of the competition held there wins the only ticket to the Olympics. There he meets Nevo, a beautiful, gifted swimmer, who awakens subconscious desires in him. However their swimming coach does not believe in friendships between competitors. Warned to stay away from Nevo, Erez is still too attracted to him. In between practices, he attempts to act upon his feelings.
Like Me
Eyal Kantor’s first full-length film is an important and effective drama. Tom, a 12th grade high-school student who is required by his father to find a new place to live within two weeks, finds himself in a torrid relationship with an older fashion photographer, while he is secretly in love with his close friend Gilad.
The main actor, Yoav Keren, who also produced and edited the film, turns out to be one of the bold and talented young actors working in Israel today.
29.10 – creators in attendance
TLVFest celebrates 50 years to The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, TAU!
We invite you to a special screening of the Tisch School’s first groundbreaking and daring LGBTQ students’ final projects which were made back in the 70’s and 80’s.
After the screening, a panel with the filmmakers to discuss queer film making, then and now.
A Different Shadow
Director: Ron Assouline
Cast: Danny Roth, Efron Atkin, Gideon Singer, Daniel Amar, Neomi Doron
Israel, 1983, 36 min, Hebrew
Amit is a young photographer from a good family who is tired of living a lie. He struggles with the difficulties of revealing his sexual tendencies to his loving family – especially in front of his tough father and his shocked brother.
It’s That Age
Director: Hagar Kot
Cast: Ruthi Goldberg, Idit Tepperson, Meir Banai, Niko Nitai, Ilan Yagoda.
Israel, 1989, 37 min, Hebrew
Danielle is a rebellious 17-year-old. She finds work sitting for Michal, a 35-year-old sculptor. Danielle opens up to Michal, and ends up in a tender, yet suffocating relationship.
Opening ceremony & screening: In Bed
Guy (28 yo) and his best friend Joy are enjoying the gay pride parade to the fullest, when their bliss is abruptly put to an end by a deadly shooting that occurs during the event. Fleeing the scene into the safety of Guy’s home, they take along a fellow pride goer, Dan, who seems to be in shock. With the shooter still on the run, Guy and Dan fall into a night full of sex, drugs and paranoia.
Produced with the support of Israel Cinema Project – Rabinovitch Foundation and United King.
Elephant
Imagine “Brokeback Mountain” meets “Call Me by Your Name” and you get “Elephant”, the wonderful debut film by director Kamil Krawczycki. The film was shot in the Polish rural countryside where the director grew up and is based on his own experiences.
22-years old Bartek runs a small horse farm in the Polish mountains. He was forced to step into the role as head of the family, when his father left and his mother completely fell apart. One day, their neighbor dies and his son Dawid returns to the village for the funeral, after a 15 years of absence. Bartek is completely taken by the carefree Dawid, and for the first time in his life he falls in love. Now Bartek has to decide whether he’s willing to choose freedom over his familial obligations.
This film shines a little ray of hope in the dark times that the LGBTQ community in Poland (and elsewhere) are undergoing right now.
“Elephant” is the perfect film for the closure of this year It will leave you with a smile on your face and a warm feeling inside.
Horseplay
It’s the Christmas holidays and Andy leaves town for a vacation with friends in a luxurious villa in the countryside. Spending time with a bunch of men is a new experience for him – there are moments of rest, friendship and teasing, but there are also games – macho games, boys games, where each one pushes his own personal boundaries.
Since his debut film “Plan B” (2009), Marco Berger became one of Latin America’s leading queer filmmakers. In his films he explores queer narratives, erotic fantasies, sexuality and gender. “Horseplay” keeps well with those themes and delivers a subservient and political film that describes masculinity in its most toxic and dangerous form.
Viewing is 18+ due to nudity, explicit sex scenes and violence.
