TLVFest, the Tel Aviv International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, opens its newest festival on October 31st at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. This is fitting, since in many parts of the world, Halloween is a holiday that is highly celebrated in this community.
Despite the war, TLVFest is moving forward and will feature the best of recent queer cinema, as well as classics, competitions, and special events from the end of October until November 10th.
Yolande Zauberman’s premiere film The Bell From Gaza is a much-talked-about documentary about transgender Palestinians who fled Gaza and are living in Tel Aviv.
The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last spring.
The film tells how Zauberman heard about a trans woman who left Gaza while filming a previous film in Israel, and details the director’s search for her. Marzipan Flowers (Credit: ITAY GROSS)
In the course of her research, she uncovers the fascinating world of Palestinian transgender people living inconspicuously in Israel.
Tareen Abu Hanna, one of the film’s main characters, will be in attendance on the opening night, and Zauberman is also expected to attend.
Anti-Zionists seek to discredit the Middle East’s biggest LGBTQ+ film event, while also facing hatred from religious extremists.
This made the organizers even more determined to introduce the festival to the public.
“Those who seek to close down the festival are fighting against the hopes for freedom, justice, equality and peace,” festival founder and director Jair Hochner said in a statement on the festival’s website. said.
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He said he was proud to be able to open the film festival with “The Bells of Gaza.” He said the film was “one of the most beautiful, smartest, saddest, and funniest films shown at the last Cannes Film Festival.”
This film brings to the fore the voices of brave, intelligent and emotional trans women living on the fringes of Israeli society. ”
Two entertainers will be honored at the festival. Elliott (also known as Elliott) was the first Israeli female singer to come out of the closet and has played an important role in the indie/pop scene here.
Hana Laszlo was the first Israeli actress to win Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Amos Gitai’s Free Zone, and throughout her long career she has shown support for Israel’s LGBTQ+ community. It’s here.
She will play Dr. Ruth Westheimer in an upcoming biopic.
TLVFest will feature a retrospective of Amos Gutman’s work and a screening of Shorey Melamed’s new documentary about the late filmmaker, Taboo: Amos Gutman. Gutman made four films about the gay community before his death from AIDS in 1993.
The effects of war became clear
The effects of the war will be felt in many programs, including a screening of Adam Calderon’s film Marzipan Flowers. The film will be dedicated to the memory of his mother, Rotem Calderon, who was murdered at the Bee Center on October 7th. Eli.
The film is inspired by his mother’s life, and proceeds from the screening will be donated to a fund to rebuild the kibbutz.
Featured films in the gala category include Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez,” which received rave reviews at Cannes this year.
This is a genre-bending film about gender transition that mixes comedy, crime drama, and musical comedy.
The story revolves around a lawyer (Zoe Saldana) hired by the leader of a Mexican drug cartel to help him arrange a gender reassignment procedure and start a new life as a woman.
Selena Gomez (The Bill Murders) plays the cartel leader’s wife, and Israeli actor Mark Ivanir plays his doctor.
Jessica Chastain won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in the title role of Tammy Faye’s Eyes, in which she played the wife of disgraced televangelist Jimmy Bakker.
She was known for her outlandish fashion sense and was one of the first and only people in the evangelical camp to speak compassionately about people suffering from AIDS.
The film is available on Disney+ but was not shown on the big screen in Israel.
Jeremy Borrison’s Unspoken is the story of a gay teenager hidden in his religious community who discovers that his grandfather may have been gay too.
There’s a surprising amount of comedy on the show considering it’s been a tough year.
The film “Who Wants to Marry an Astronaut?”, directed by Spanish director David Matamoros, is about a gay couple who try to escape to Las Vegas to get married, but they break up, and the more romantic of the two ends up in Las Vegas. It means deciding to go. Find a husband there solo.
Janice Pugh’s Chuck Chuck Baby tells the story of a woman working in a poultry factory in North Wales who finds herself stuck in a rut and reunites with an old friend.
There will also be tributes to Pedro Almodovar’s films, including screenings of “All About My Mother” and “Bad Education.”
Actress Joy Rieger’s directorial debut short film “I’m Not Healthy” will be screened.
For those who can’t make it to Tel Aviv, several titles will be available via VOD on NIS 10 per film during the festival.
The complete program is available at https://www.tlvfest.com/en.
