Sympathetic film unveils 'visible' gay Paltians | The Tim of Israel

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• THE BT ISRAELI LGBT FILMS YOU SHOULD WATCH GAY PRI PARA COURTY OF FLICKR | U.S. EMBASSY TEL AVIV DEBORAH MOHER 14 JULY 2023 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE CELEBRATED GAY SCENE ISRAEL WH AN ECLECTIC VARIETY OF SOME OF THE MOST NTROVERSIAL AND CELEBRATED LGBT FILMS WRTEN, DIRECTED AND PRODUCED THE UNTRY. VIEW ALL TRIPS DID YOU KNOW – CULTURE TRIP NOW DO BOOKABLE, SMALL-GROUP TRIPS? PICK OM THENTIC, IMMERSIVE EPIC TRIPS, PACT AND ACTN-PACKED MI TRIPS AND SPARKLG, EXPANSIVE SAILG TRIPS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP CROATIA ICELAND SOUTH AI THAILAND GREECE ECUADOR TURKEY BALI JAPAN EGYPT INDIA MEXI MOROC SPA ORIENTED (2012) ORIENTED IS A FASCATG DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT THREE GAY PALTIAN IENDS THEIR 20S LIVG LIFE TEL AVIV. IT WAS IALLY RELEASED JUNE 2015 AT THE SHEFFIELD DOCUMENTARY FTIVAL, AND WAS DIRECTED BY JAKE WZENFELD AS HIS FEATURE BUT. THE FILM IS NOT ONLY A MORN TALE OF THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATNS OF BEG GAY SOCIETY, ALSO DOCUMENTS THE DIFFICULTI OF BEG GAY FOR PALTIAN MEN AND HOW THE ISSUE CLASH WH ISLAMIC DOCTRE. THE THREE BT IENDS CI TO FORM A GROUP LLED ‘QAMBUTA,’ HOPG TO BRG ABOUT CHANGE THROUGH EXPOSURE TO THEIR UNIQUE SEXUAL AND NATNAL INTI. EPIC MOROCCO FROM ANCIENT CI TO THE SAHARA, EMBRACE CULTURAL RICH AND ENCHANTG LANDSP NORTH AI. VIEW TRIP YOSSI & JAGGER (2002) YOSSI AND JAGGER WAS RELEASED 2002 AND HAS SCE BEE A CULT MT-SEE. DIRECTED BY EYTAN FOX, THIS ROMANTIC FILM FOLLOWS TWO GAY SOLDIERS THE ISRAELI ARY AS THEY AL WH DAILY LIFE AT THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORR. YOSSI IS A MANR AND IS VOLVED A SECRET, PASSNATE LOVE AFFAIR WH HIS SEND--MAND (WHO IS NICKNAMED JAGGER). THE TWO OFTEN SNEAK OFF OM THE OUTPOST TO SPEND TIME TOGETHER. AN AMBH LEAV JAGGER WOUND, AND PLITNS ENSUE. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. OUT THE DARK (2013) ANOTHER POLILLY PROVOTIVE TALE, OUT THE DARK TELLS THE STORY OF AN ISRAELI LAWYER WHO FALLS FOR A PALTIAN PSYCHOLOGY STUNT. THE FILM WAS RELEASED 2012 AT THE INTERNATNAL HAIFA FILM FTIVAL. THE FILM, A DIRECTORIAL BUT FOR MICHAEL MAYER, PORTRAYS THE POLIL PLITNS OF AN ISRAELI FALLG LOVE WH A PALTIAN THE WT BANK AND THE EVABLE PROBLEMS OF HOMOSEXUALY A NSERVATIVE MLIM SOCIETY. - AME - CUPK (2013) IN A DIFFERENT GENRE OM THE CELEBRATED EYTAN FOX, DIRECTOR OF YOSSI AND JAGGER, CUPK IS A SWEET EDY OF A GROUP OF FIVE IENDS TEL AVIV WHO ENTER THE EUROVISN SONG CONTT AS A JOKE. THEY ARE SHOCKED TO FD OUT THAT THEIR ENTRY WAS ACCEPTED. THE FILM FOLLOWS THE LGBT-IENDLY GROUP AS THEY GO FORWARD WH THE IAL JOKE THAT IS NOW TAKEN SERLY BY EACH MEMBER FOR DIFFERENT PERSONAL REASONS. - AME - PAPER DOLLS (2006) PAPER DOLLS IS A CHARMG DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWG THE LIV OF TRANSGENR FILIPOS WHO HAVE E TO ISRAEL TO WORK AS RE-WORKERS FOR ELRLY JEWISH ORTHODOX MEN. THE DOCUMENTARY PAPER DOLLS ( HEBREW BOOBOT NIYAR) WAS RELEASED 2006 BY DIRECTOR TOMER HEYMANN. THE DOCUMENTARY WAS SHOT OVER A LONG FIVE-YEAR PERD AND WAS FEATURED A VARIETY OF TERNATNAL FILM FTIVALS TO A POSIVE RECEPTN. - AME - YOSSI (2012) A SEQUEL TO EYTAN FOX’S YOSSI AND JAGGER, THE FILM YOSSI FOLLOWS THE TLE CHARACTER’S LIFE FOLLOWG HIS ENUNTER WH JAGGER TEN YEARS EARLIER. YOSSI IS A 34-YEAR-OLD RDLOGIST TRYG TO PE WH HIS TRMATIC PAST AND HIS PRENT. THE FILM WAS RELEASED 2012 AND IS FOX’S FIFTH FEATURE FILM. - AME - VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• STORY OF GAY ROMANCE BETWEEN ISRAELI AND PALTIAN SHEDS LIGHT ON FORBIDN LOVE
• SYMPATHETIC FILM UNVEILS ‘VISIBLE’ GAY PALTIANS
• GAY PALTIANS ISRAEL HIGHLIGHT OF NEW FILM
• GAY PALTIANS
• DOCUMENTARY ‘ORIENTED’ LOOKS AT GAY PALTIANS TEL AVIV
• IN THEATERS NOW: ISRAEL’S GAY PUBLIC RELATNS CAMPAIGN
• PALTIAN GAY FILM FTIVAL BREAKS DOWN BARRIERS

THE BT ISRAELI LGBT FILMS YOU SHOULD WATCH GAY PRI PARA COURTY OF FLICKR | U.S. EMBASSY TEL AVIV DEBORAH MOHER 14 JULY 2023 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE CELEBRATED GAY SCENE ISRAEL WH AN ECLECTIC VARIETY OF SOME OF THE MOST NTROVERSIAL AND CELEBRATED LGBT FILMS WRTEN, DIRECTED AND PRODUCED THE UNTRY. VIEW ALL TRIPS DID YOU KNOW – CULTURE TRIP NOW DO BOOKABLE, SMALL-GROUP TRIPS? PICK OM THENTIC, IMMERSIVE EPIC TRIPS, PACT AND ACTN-PACKED MI TRIPS AND SPARKLG, EXPANSIVE SAILG TRIPS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP CROATIA ICELAND SOUTH AI THAILAND GREECE ECUADOR TURKEY BALI JAPAN EGYPT INDIA MEXI MOROC SPA ORIENTED (2012) ORIENTED IS A FASCATG DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT THREE GAY PALTIAN IENDS THEIR 20S LIVG LIFE TEL AVIV. IT WAS IALLY RELEASED JUNE 2015 AT THE SHEFFIELD DOCUMENTARY FTIVAL, AND WAS DIRECTED BY JAKE WZENFELD AS HIS FEATURE BUT. THE FILM IS NOT ONLY A MORN TALE OF THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATNS OF BEG GAY SOCIETY, ALSO DOCUMENTS THE DIFFICULTI OF BEG GAY FOR PALTIAN MEN AND HOW THE ISSUE CLASH WH ISLAMIC DOCTRE. THE THREE BT IENDS CI TO FORM A GROUP LLED ‘QAMBUTA,’ HOPG TO BRG ABOUT CHANGE THROUGH EXPOSURE TO THEIR UNIQUE SEXUAL AND NATNAL INTI. EPIC MOROCCO FROM ANCIENT CI TO THE SAHARA, EMBRACE CULTURAL RICH AND ENCHANTG LANDSP NORTH AI. VIEW TRIP YOSSI & JAGGER (2002) YOSSI AND JAGGER WAS RELEASED 2002 AND HAS SCE BEE A CULT MT-SEE. DIRECTED BY EYTAN FOX, THIS ROMANTIC FILM FOLLOWS TWO GAY SOLDIERS THE ISRAELI ARY AS THEY AL WH DAILY LIFE AT THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORR. YOSSI IS A MANR AND IS VOLVED A SECRET, PASSNATE LOVE AFFAIR WH HIS SEND--MAND (WHO IS NICKNAMED JAGGER). THE TWO OFTEN SNEAK OFF OM THE OUTPOST TO SPEND TIME TOGETHER. AN AMBH LEAV JAGGER WOUND, AND PLITNS ENSUE. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. OUT THE DARK (2013) ANOTHER POLILLY PROVOTIVE TALE, OUT THE DARK TELLS THE STORY OF AN ISRAELI LAWYER WHO FALLS FOR A PALTIAN PSYCHOLOGY STUNT. THE FILM WAS RELEASED 2012 AT THE INTERNATNAL HAIFA FILM FTIVAL. THE FILM, A DIRECTORIAL BUT FOR MICHAEL MAYER, PORTRAYS THE POLIL PLITNS OF AN ISRAELI FALLG LOVE WH A PALTIAN THE WT BANK AND THE EVABLE PROBLEMS OF HOMOSEXUALY A NSERVATIVE MLIM SOCIETY. - AME - CUPK (2013) IN A DIFFERENT GENRE OM THE CELEBRATED EYTAN FOX, DIRECTOR OF YOSSI AND JAGGER, CUPK IS A SWEET EDY OF A GROUP OF FIVE IENDS TEL AVIV WHO ENTER THE EUROVISN SONG CONTT AS A JOKE. THEY ARE SHOCKED TO FD OUT THAT THEIR ENTRY WAS ACCEPTED. THE FILM FOLLOWS THE LGBT-IENDLY GROUP AS THEY GO FORWARD WH THE IAL JOKE THAT IS NOW TAKEN SERLY BY EACH MEMBER FOR DIFFERENT PERSONAL REASONS. - AME - PAPER DOLLS (2006) PAPER DOLLS IS A CHARMG DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWG THE LIV OF TRANSGENR FILIPOS WHO HAVE E TO ISRAEL TO WORK AS RE-WORKERS FOR ELRLY JEWISH ORTHODOX MEN. THE DOCUMENTARY PAPER DOLLS ( HEBREW BOOBOT NIYAR) WAS RELEASED 2006 BY DIRECTOR TOMER HEYMANN. THE DOCUMENTARY WAS SHOT OVER A LONG FIVE-YEAR PERD AND WAS FEATURED A VARIETY OF TERNATNAL FILM FTIVALS TO A POSIVE RECEPTN. - AME - YOSSI (2012) A SEQUEL TO EYTAN FOX’S YOSSI AND JAGGER, THE FILM YOSSI FOLLOWS THE TLE CHARACTER’S LIFE FOLLOWG HIS ENUNTER WH JAGGER TEN YEARS EARLIER. YOSSI IS A 34-YEAR-OLD RDLOGIST TRYG TO PE WH HIS TRMATIC PAST AND HIS PRENT. THE FILM WAS RELEASED 2012 AND IS FOX’S FIFTH FEATURE FILM. - AME - VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

We take a look at the celebrated gay scene Israel wh an eclectic variety of some of the most ntroversial and celebrated LGBT films wrten, directed and produced the untry. Oriented (2012) Oriented is a fascatg documentary film about three gay Paltian iends their 20s livg life Tel Aviv.

The film is not only a morn tale of the trials and tribulatns of beg gay society, also documents the difficulti of beg gay for Paltian men and how the issue clash wh Islamic doctre. Directed by Eytan Fox, this romantic film follows two gay soldiers the Israeli ary as they al wh daily life at the Israel-Lebanon borr. The film, a directorial but for Michael Mayer, portrays the polil plitns of an Israeli fallg love wh a Paltian the Wt Bank and the evable problems of homosexualy a nservative Mlim society.

The movie tells the story of an Algerian-French heterosexual young man begng a soclogy study of gay islamic homosexuali and disverg gay love wh a young French steward.

STORY OF GAY ROMANCE BETWEEN ISRAELI AND PALTIAN SHEDS LIGHT ON FORBIDN LOVE

But when Waleed sudnly dumps him to marry a woman, Rami mt face the realy of life as a gay man Egypt. The batn of beg back his hometown, this prsure om his mother and his homosexualy him to have equent panic attacks. Out Loud is the first film om Lebanon wh a gay theme that sets a new standard for cema om the Middle East the midst of the Arab Sprg.

Abllah, a young gay man, is tryg to fd his way through the difficult sexual, polil and racial climate of Moroc.

A documentary by Peter Barbosa and Garrett Lenoir, I Exist giv a voice to gay and lbian Amerins om the Middle East, who often rema silent out of shame and fear. Filmed 12 untri and 9 languag, this documentary, directed by gay Mlim filmmaker Parvez Sharma, tells the lorful and varied stori of gay and lbian Mlims om all over the world. This timate documentary follows a number of young Morocn gay men their exploratn of their relig and sexual inty.

SYMPATHETIC FILM UNVEILS ‘VISIBLE’ GAY PALTIANS

For a gay filmmaker, filmg Sdi Arabia prents two ser challeng: filmg is forbidn the untry and homosexualy is punishable by ath.

GAY PALTIANS ISRAEL HIGHLIGHT OF NEW FILM

Enuraged by Sandra, Ama lnch a blog lled “A Gay Girl Damasc, ” reprentg a margalized voice the Middle East on polics, relign, and sexualy. In 2015, he me out as gay on Facebook, makg him the first openly gay man om Sudan, this a massive outrage the Sudane muny. In this portra that is multi-layered both terms of form and ntent, a gay man nonts the ghosts of his past and explor hidn longgs, unrequed love and tormentg feelgs of guilt.

In post-Fran Madrid where he lived an openly gay existence, his life rembled one long Almodóvarian y, full of excs and sexual taboo-breakg. Until the day he meets Daniel, a lover who helps him disver Paris the midst of a gay revolutn. After beg tranged om his fay for his homosexualy, we observe a young Arab man over four seasons and om far away as he navigat his solu – all the while attemptg to rennect wh his mother.

A short documentary that tells the stori of Mashrou’ Leila, a Lebane rock band wh an outspoken gay sger, and Sarah Hegazy, an Egyptian activist.

GAY PALTIANS

Between realy and animatn, the story of Nidhal is told, a young homosexual Tunisian who fend dividual eedoms Tunisia through his work rad. It is unual for a gay film to touch on tough topics such as prosecutn, pnage and the nstant threat of ath, and "Out the Dark" do outstandg style. As JW3, the Jewish muny centre north London, lnch GayW3, celebratg the liv of the LGBTQ muny throughout history to the prent day through film, theatre, mic and discsn, and upliftg Brish-Israeli documentary Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?, backed by the BFI, prepar for s cema release, now is a great time to look back at the bt of Jewish and Israeli LGBT cema.

Gay Jewish characters have been the subject of great films om around the world, and the list below featur films om the UK, France, Germany, the US, and, of urse, Israel. A number of Brish films jt missed the list, cludg Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), which Jewish doctor Peter Fch enjoyed Brish cema’s first male-on-male kiss; award-wng short film Sidney Turtlebm (2008), starrg Derek Jabi as an elrly gay Jewish pickpocket and nman; and Lisa Gornick’s latt film, The Book of Gabrielle (2016), a funny and sharp study of a Jewish lbian whose sexualy is thrown to turmoil.

DOCUMENTARY ‘ORIENTED’ LOOKS AT GAY PALTIANS TEL AVIV

The 10 films foc on culturally Jewish films featurg gay and lbian protagonists, almost all of which were directed by Jewish filmmakers.

His adaptatn of Mart Crowley’s play, about a group of gay men who gather for Harold’s party, rultg a cel eveng of sadistic gam and sabotage, me at the wrong time – as the gay liberatn movement tablished s voice the early 1970s, negative or prsg pictns of gay men the media were seen as archaic and obstctive to progrs. While Michael, the pathetic protagonist, is ed an unlikeable and self-pyg monster, the other characters are far more sympathetic, while the glor Harold, utterly unashamed of his homosexualy and wh nothg to hi, emerg om the rnage unsthed. Friedk would go on to make a far more dub gay film – the notor S&M killer thriller Cisg (1980).

IN THEATERS NOW: ISRAEL’S GAY PUBLIC RELATNS CAMPAIGN

Torch Song Trilogy (1988)Harvey Fierste is bt known for his stage work, particularly for wrg the books for the stage mils La Cage x Foll and Kky Boots, jog Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman as Broadway legends who happened to be both gay and Jewish.

It hasn’t dated a jot – more’s the py, as ristance to effemate men and gay adoptn still prevail today.

The star of the show, though, is Fierste, who mak Arnold a lovable, vulgar and believably human figure who challenged the perceptn of drag queens as sexls clowns shamg the gay muny. He kicked off his short reer wh Driftg (1982), a grim, semi-tobgraphil tale of a gay filmmaker tryg and failg to fd love and fundg for his next film.

PALTIAN GAY FILM FTIVAL BREAKS DOWN BARRIERS

Amazg Grace, ma nearly a later, is a much stronger piece of work, about two gay men – one an nocent teenager om a troubled fay, the other an HIV patient – who fall for each other after meetg Tel Aviv. In Man Is a Woman, he brgs all his nsirable charm and charisma to the role of Simon, a gay Klezmer mician who is offered 10 ln ancs om his tradnalist uncle if he agre to marry a woman.

Is the meang of the film’s tle, explaed at the vibrant Jewish weddg that starts the film, a homophobic nonsense? An attempted kiss at a New Year’s Eve party velops to a passnate romance, but the vlently homophobic and antisemic world of wartime Berl threatens their happs. Few gay and lbian survivors were alive to tell their stori when Rob Epste and Jefey Friedman ma their important documentary Paragraph 175, whose tle riv om the German act of law prohibg gay sex, which ntued to exist to the 1990s.

Rather than producg a para of cshed victims, the film foregrounds the sharp mentary of Gad Beck, a Jewish gay man who helped refuge pe; the wistful memori of love lost om Hez F., still too guard to reveal his full name; and the undiluted anger of Pierre Seel, who was tortured by Nazi officers.