Guy (28) and his best friend Joy (31) are enjoying the gay pride parade to the fullest, when their bliss is abruptly put to an end by a deadly shooting. Fleeing the scene into the safety of Guy’s home, they take in a fellow pride parader, Dan, who seems in shock. With the shooter still on the run, they enter a night full of sex, drugs and paranoia.
Lior who had to stay home and watch his ill younger brother Ben, invites his boyfriend Nir to his home for the first time. He doesn’t want his brother to find out about their relationship, leading him to deal with the brother’s attempts to get noticed parallel to his attempts to unite with Nir.
Written and Directed by Shai Blanc
Shot during the gay pride parade in Tel-Aviv, June 2010
Director: Nir Sadeh
Tel Aviv, Summer 1989. Boaz, a beautiful and alluring linguistics student, receives anonymous, male-written, love letters that undermines his sexual identity and interfere with his peaceful life with his beloved girlfriend.
Director: Yariv Mozer
In Jerusalem, Hillel discovers that his lover is about to replace him with a new girlfriend, a young singer. Hillel will not give up so easily and his actions will confront him and the people around him with tough decisions and truths.
Director: Orr Sigoli
A New York Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The energy of the city and his relationship with a younger man brings him back to life.
Director: Eytan Fox
Idan, a man in his 20’s, arrives to the public launderette to wash his clothes. While entering the place, Idan meets Mike, a teen-aged boy who tries to sleep there. The interaction between the two of them brings Idan to a situation in which he didn’t ever think to find himself in. Written by Doron Alon
Daniel, an arrogant, restless young Londoner is bored with his meaningless life. When he seeks sympathy from his old Jewish grandmother, she sends him on a mission to Europe to find the grave of her father who disappeared during the Second World War.
Director: Caroline Roboh
Director: Ofir Raul Graizer
On one warm Saturday, a young man is forced to choose between his gay lover and submission to his religious identity.
A gay love story set in a one-bedroom apartment in Tel Aviv. They meet, they have sex, they fall in love. Will it last until the morning comes?
Idan and Elad, both straight, meet for the first time after they are picked up by a girl they each meet at a bar. The three of them go back to her place and end up in bed together but the men, during the act, are inexplicably unable to take their eyes off each other. After the girl has fallen asleep, Idan and Elad, sitting in bed and unable to sleep, initiate an awkward conversation, both trying to reach out to the other and understand those new feelings stirring inside of them.
“Find out who you are and be that person.
That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be.
Find that truth, live that truth, and everything else will come.”
-Ellen DeGeneres-
A drama centered on the love affair between two men on opposite sides of the Mid-East conflict: Palestinian student Nimer and Roy, an Israeli lawyer.
Director: Michael Mayer
Thomas, a young and talented German baker, is having an affair with Oren, an Israeli married man who dies in a car crash. Thomas travels to Jerusalem seeking answers. Keeping his secret for himself, he starts working for Anat, his lover’s widow, who owns a small café. Although not fully kosher and despised by the religious, his delicious cakes turn the place into a city attraction. Finding himself involved in Anat’s life in a way far beyond his anticipation, Thomas will stretch his lie to a point of no return.
Director: Ofir Raul Graizer
Stars: Tim Kalkhof, Sarah Adler, Roy Miller
Sea, sun, island, a family on vacation. And all Yuval wants is to get the heck out of there.
Directors: Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon
Stars: Yiftach Klein, Oded Leopold, Hilla Vidor
Two friends go on a hike to the desert. In the desolate wilderness something hidden comes out in their friendship. From then on, the only way they manage to communicate is sexually and violently. While one of them wants more than the other is able to give, he expresses his frustration by making sure they get lost and have no water – anything to escape from awaiting reality.
Director: Guy Sahaf
Yair Takes care of his sick mother. She develops dependence upon him while his boyfriend asks him to move in.
Place | Dir: Itamar Lider Shiri
Israel, 2016, 14 min, Hebrew with English subtitles.
The first Israeli film that deals with bullying among teenagers, ADAM centers around a high school student whose declaration of love to another boy leads to hostile reactions from his classmates. ADAM is a one of a kind multinational effort created to keep the conversation of teenage bullying alive and going globally. Israeli Director Segev Gershon-Green, with American producer Edward Singletary Jr. and Indonesian producer Edward Gunawan join forces to bring this difficult topic to life in this beautifully executed dramatic short film.
Director: Segev Gershon (as Segev Gershon Green)
