As Jewish arts centre JW3 celebrat the bt of LGBT culture, and the release of BFI-backed documentary Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? draws closer, we remember some of the bt Jewish and Israeli gay and lbian films.
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- THE GAY-THEMED ISRAELI DRAMA ‘15 YEARS’ HAS BYPASSED THE THEATRIL WDOW, BUT THAT’S NOT NECSARILY BAD NEWS
- A LANDMARK FOR GAY CEMA — AND ONE OF THE BT JEWISH FILMS YEARS
THE GAY-THEMED ISRAELI DRAMA ‘15 YEARS’ HAS BYPASSED THE THEATRIL WDOW, BUT THAT’S NOT NECSARILY BAD NEWS
Take a peak to some of the most ntroversial and celebrated gay films wrten, directed and produced Israel. * gay themed movie israel *
A gay Orthodox love story set 1980s Brooklyn, the film navigat the emotnal terra of relign and sexualy exquisely. Recently released to rave reviews, s subtlety speaks volum to the gay Orthodox experience.
A LANDMARK FOR GAY CEMA — AND ONE OF THE BT JEWISH FILMS YEARS
* gay themed movie israel *
Another Israeli film by teemed LGBT Israeli director Eytan Fox, “Yossi & Jagger” follows a gay relatnship wh the nfements of the Israeli Defense Forc.
"Yossi & Jagger" director Eytan Fox's gay romance opens theaters on June 11. * gay themed movie israel *
An LGBT classic for Israelis, this film expertly navigat gay romance wh the limatns of the IDF. 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. 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).