A sequel to Eytan Fox’s Yossi and Jagger, Yossi follows the title character’s life his encounter with Jagger ten years earlier.
Paper Dolls (2006): Tomer Heymann’s Docu of Transgender Filipinos in Israel
October 7, 2021 by
Paper Dolls is a documentary about the lives of transgender Filipinos who have come to Israel to work as care-workers for elderly Jewish Orthodox men. Paper Dolls (in Hebrew Boobot Niyar) was released in 2006 by director Tomer Heymann. The feature was shot over a five-year period and was played in a variety of international film festivals […]
Out in the Dark (2013):
October 7, 2021 by
A politically provocative tale, Out in the Dark tells the story of an Israeli lawyer who falls for a Palestinian psychology student. The film was released in 2012 at the Haifa Film Festival. A directorial debut for Michael Mayer, the film portrays the political complications of an Israeli falling in love with a Palestinian in […]
Circumstance:
October 6, 2021 by
A story of forbidden love, Maryam Keshavarz’s film concerns a love affair between young women played out in Tehran. The film, released after political turmoil in Iran with the elections of 2009, delves into a youth counterculture there. Schoolmates and lovers-to-be Atafeh (The Bold Type’s Nikohl Boosheri) and Shireen (Sarah Kazemy) join a gay male […]
Gay Cinema: Italian
October 1, 2021 by
In Italian movies of the late 1960s and early 1970s, homosexuality emerged out of the closet.
