Yossi (2012) A sequel to Eytan Fox’s cult movie, Yossi and Jagger, Yossi follows the title character’s life his encounter with Jagger ten years earlier. Yossi is a 34-year-old cardiologist trying to cope with his traumatic past and his present. The film was released in 2012 and is Fox’s fifth feature film. […]
Paper Dolls (2006)
May 29, 2021 by
Paper Dolls is documentary about the lives of transgender Filipinos who have come to Israel to work as care-workers for elderly Jewish Orthodox men. The documentary Paper Dolls (in Hebrew Boobot Niyar) was released in 2006 by director Tomer Heymann. Shot over a long five-year period, it played in a variety of international film festivals. Share […]
Cupcakes (2013): Eytan Fox’s Tale of Gay Friends and the Eurovision
May 29, 2021 by
In a different genre from the celebrated Eytan Fox, director of Yossi and Jagger, Cupcakes is a comedy of a group of five friends in Tel Aviv who enter the Eurovision Song Contest as a joke. They are shocked to find out that their entry was accepted. The film follows the LGBT-friendly group as they […]
Out in the Dark (2013): Gay Israeli Cinema
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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 Fest. The film, a directorial debut for Michael Mayer, portrays the political complications of an Israeli falling in love with a Palestinian in the West Bank and […]
Salesman (1969): Seminal Docu by Albert and David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin
May 24, 2021 by
A seminal direct-cinema documentary about door-to-door Bible salesmen, Salesman was co-directed by brothers Albert and David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin. Salesman Theatrical release poster The docu follows four salesmen as they travel across New England and southeast Florida trying to sell expensive Bibles door-to-door in low-income neighborhoods. There’s also a detailed chronicle of a sales […]
