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Sundance 2025

Touch Me

Director and screenwriter Addison Heimann’s second film is a provocative and camp horror comedy, imaginative and crazy in the best way possible. This is a love song to the weird and sexual Japanese cinema of the 60’s and 70’s- the ground on which films such as “In the Realm of the Senses” grew upon.

“Touch me” dares to touch such subjects as mental health, desire and sexual abandonment but does not lose its humor for a second. Two best friends are depending on each other and get addicted to the heroin-like touch of a narcissistic alien with a craving for human flesh who may or may not want to take over the world.

Director and screenwriter Addison Heimann, whose first film “Hypochondriac” was screened at the 2022 TLVFest, comes back with a weirder, crazier and more brilliant second film. The result is a sexy and wonderfully bloody dream.

This film is limited to ages 18 and above since it’s a sexy and bloody extravaganza that you couldn’t get enough of.

Plainclothes

Lucas is a young police officer whose main job is to haunt known gay cruising sites and arrest whoever he catches red-handed.

When he comes across Andrew, an older man who falls into Lucas’ trap, an unexplained feeling is stopping him from arresting Andrew and Lucas finds himself dealing with feelings he is used to bury.

The two embark on a secret relationship, a series of intimate and emotional meetings will lead them to a boiling point.

Director Carmen Emmi’s debut film, which won the Ensemble award of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival is a thrilling, smart and moving drama starring Russell Tovey and rising star Tom Blyth in an impressive role.

Sally

Sally Ride was the first American woman who went to space, but under the amazing career she kept a secret. Sally had  a romantic relationship with a woman for 27 years.

For the first time Tam O’Shaughnessy, Sally’s partner, reveals their secret affair and the price they had to pay so that Sally could fulfill her career.

Director Cristina Costantini brings to the big screen the unbelievable story of Astronaut Sally Ride and gives us a glimpse of her life outside the headlines in the papers and the talk shows Sally appeared in- her journey outside of earth’s atmosphere and the landing back into very conservative USA of the 80’s and the sexist and LGBTQ-phobic environment of NASA.

The film reveals the love story of two fascinating women, and the legacy that Sally Ride left that inspires many girls and women to dream of the stars and beyond.

Courtesy of Disney+

Jimpa

Anna (Academy Award Winner Olivia Colman) takes her non-binary teenager, Frances, to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather Jim- nicknamed Jimpa (Academy Award Nominee John Lithgow), an elderly decadent patriarch who’s having a hell of a time in Amsterdam. Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) wants to stay with Jimpa for a year and experience the big queer city to the fullest. This will force Anna to reconsider her beliefs regarding parenthood and eventually face her past and her complex relationship with her own father.

In 2014 we screened Sophie Hyde’s phenomenal debut film “52 Tuesdays”, in the time that passed she directed Emma Thompson in the comedy “Good luck to you, Leo Grande” and now she returns with a personal queer film. “Jimpa” is a loving and thorough look on complex inter-generational relationships in family, friends and lovers.

Rains Over Babel

Babel is a legendary nightclub that is an oasis to anyone who is queer, freak and different in town. La Flaca is Death herself that resides in the club, and she plays with the lost souls that gamble with her through the years. Will they be able to win against death herself?

Director Gala Del Sol’s first full length feature is an intoxicating fusion of alternative tropic dream and modern-day Columbia. Del Sol creates a hypnotic and fantastic world where life and death clash and destinies are rolled with dice. The sexiest of casts is portraying sparkling characters that takes us to a journey full of life which is all wild subversion where each and every one of them fights their own demons and it’s all happening in a retro-punk-futuristic-colorful style full of passion.

“Rains Over Babel” is an ode to the resilience of queer characters from the fringes of society that are fighting for one thing- to be themselves without fear.

The result is sexy, sparkly, daring and ambitious cinema that promises an unforgettable experience.

In association with the Instituto Cervantes

Opening Event: Kiss of the Spider Woman

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Opening Ceremony of the 20th TLVFest: The Tel-Aviv International LGBTQ+ Film Festival

19:30 – Red Carpet and Cocktail for the ticket buyers for the opening ceremony and invitees only. Sponsored by Vodka Mont Blanc
20:30 – The opening ceremony – hosted by Lioz Levi and Yaniv Biton.
Performances by Yael Levita and Eitan Drori from the Israeli Opera and Drag Brunch Tel Aviv – One Night Only
TLVFest 2025 honorary award to the iconic Dana International

.From the screenwriter of “Chicago” and the director of “Gods and Monsters”, “Kinsey” and “Dream Girls” comes the cinematic production of the Tony award winner musical “The Kiss of the Spider Woman”, based on a 1976 novel by Argentinian writer Manuel Puig.

Valentin, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser who was arrested for indecent exposure. The two make an unexpected connection when Molina tells the plot of an old Hollywood music film named “The Kiss of the Spider Woman” starring his favorite diva, Ingrid Luna.

Aside from the spectacular visual design of the film, you can find three talented actors moving between drama, dancing and singing like they’ve been doing it on a daily basis.

Jennifer Lopez is giving a performance of a lifetime- hypnotizing and unforgettable as if she was born to play the Latina Diva Ingrid Luna. Diego Luna (“Andor”, “Y tu mama tambien”) is Valentin, in one of his best performances and Tonatiuh (“Carry-on”) is truly a rising star.

Festival Program Launch + “Rains Over Babel”

Before the screening: Presentation of the festival program and trailers from major films at the TLVfest 2025 (October 23rd – November 1st, 2025)

(app. 40 min)

‘Babel’ is a legendary nightclub that is an oasis to anyone who is queer, freak and different in town. La Flaca is Death herself that resides in the club, and she plays with the lost souls that gamble with her through the years. Will they be able to win against death herself?

Director Gala Del Sol’s first full length feature is an intoxicating fusion of alternative tropic dream and modern-day Columbia. Del Sol creates a hypnotic and fantastic world where life and death clash and destinies are rolled with dice. The sexiest of casts is portraying sparkling characters that takes us to a journey full of life which is all wild subversion where each and every one of them fights their own demons and it’s all happening in a retro-punk-futuristic-colorful style full of passion.

“Rains over Babel” is an ode to the resilience of queer characters from the fringes of society that are fighting for one thing- to be themselves without fear.

The result is sexy, sparkly, daring and ambitious cinema that promises an unforgettable experience.

Ticket Prices:

Regular ticket: 48 NIS
Tel Aviv Cinematheque membership (‘manuy’): 25 NIS
DigiTel: 29 NIS
Soldier/Pensioner/Disabled/Student ticket: 30 NIS
Displaced & evacuated: Free entry, if empty seats available (with ID card)

4 Tickets – special price 160 NIS (40 NIS per ticket) – purchase here (not including opening night and special events)
6 Tickets – special price 210 NIS (35 NIS per ticket) – purchase here (not including opening night and special events)
12 Tickets – special price 360 NIS (30 NIS per ticket) – purchase here (not including opening night and special events)

Tangerine

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With discount code TLVFEST ticket’s price is 30NIS instead of 48NIS.

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Decade to Sean Baker’s (“Anora”, 2024) breakthrough film

It’s Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee Rella is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn’t been faithful during the time she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles.

This Award winning picture is a unique, realistic and moving cinematic experience.

Celebrating Trans Day of Visibility ♥

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