Duration: 85 minutes
Israeli Shorts 2 – Hide & Seek
Israeli Shorts 3 – War Movie
Duration: 60 min
Sapir College Shorts & Panel
Conversation with students about the lingering effects of October 7th
With Dr. Yasmin Sason
Duration: 70 min
LGBTQ Mix – Israeli Shorts 6
As its name suggests, this is the most colorful, diverse, surprising and fun shorts collection of the 2024 TLVFest. It contains many different cinematic genres and topics from every color of the LGBTQ rainbow.
Animation, video-art, fiction, documentary, serious drama and comedy – and all of it made in Israel.
Duration: 70 min
Women Israeli Shorts – Sisterz
Duration: 90 min
Israeli Youth Competition
Duration: 60 min
!Love & Revolution
The year is 1977 and Miguel is going to be the first one in his family to go to university. But Miguel has different dreams: to become a singer and take part in a popular TV competition. He’s exposed to social activists, finds himself doing drag in underground clubs and becomes an activist himself, all this in secret and against the will of his mother Reme, a 50 year-old woman, who works as a seamstress in a luxury suits shop.
In the 70’s homosexuality was still taboo in Spain, the police regularly used violence against the LGBTQ community and being associated with the gay community was an offence that could get you in jail. When Miguel is caught in drag by the police, his conservative mother decides to step up and join Miguel’s friends – other activists from the gay community, to fight the police, the court and the government in order to make Spain a better place.
In his debut film, director Alejandro Marín manages to get into the hearts of his audience with a thrilling and sweeping dramedy on the right to love. A film that is a salute to all those who fought and are still fighting to live in a liberal country with equal rights and no fear.
The film’s original name, “Te estoy amando locamente” (“I love you madly”), refers to the power of mother’s love to her son, and therefore it is also a film that honors all the mothers that support their LGBTQ children, and even if sometimes it’s hard for them, they would fight for their sons and daughters till the end.
The film is based on real events.
In association with the Embassy of Spain & PrideTV
Woman Of…
Set against the landscape of the Polish transformation from communism to capitalism, “Woman Of…” spans 45 years of the life of Aniela Wesoły, who lived more than half of her adult life in a provincial Polish town as a man. Aniela’s journey to find personal liberty as a trans woman reveals hardships in marriage and parenthood, strained family relations and complicated attitudes in her environment, which constantly place her in impossible situations. What choices will Aniela have to make? Will she be ready to sacrifice all to become who she truly is?
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Silver Haze
A breathtaking drama by director/screenwriter Sacha Polak that had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.
23 years old Franky was badly injured as a child in a fire, which left marks and not only on her body. For fifteen years she’s been trying to bring those responsible for the fire to justice. She now works in the same hospital where her life was saved and she always finds the right words for every patient, even for moody Florence. The two fall in love and Franky runs away from her oppressive, LGBTphobic middle class family to find a safe haven with Florence and her family. But the past won’t let her rest.
“Silver Haze” is the second cooperation between director Sacha Polak and actress Vicky Knight. The script is based on memories of real events from Knight’s life. Tibor Dingelstad’s sensual cinematography creates raw realism but also tenderness. Joris Oonke and Ella Van Der Woude’s original soundtrack completes the atmosphere and drama of this powerful film.
