"A story of hidden love, challenged faith, and unwittingly shared grief." Strand Releasing has unveiled an official Us trailer for a German drama titled The Cakemaker, which played at a number of film festivals throughout 2017. Made by Israeli filmmaker Ofir Raul Graizer, the film is about a talented young German baker who travels to Israel after his secret lover, an Israeli married man, is killed in a car crash. There he searches for his lover's wife and son, but ends up lost in an entirely different world with all kinds of feelings to deal with. Tim Kalkhof stars as Thomas, along with Sarah Adler, Zohar Shtrauss, Sandra Sade, and Roy Miller. The film won various awards at the Jerusalem Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and Miami Jewish Film Festival. This looks like a good under-the-radar foreign film to discover - see below. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Ofir Raul Graizer's The Cakemaker,...
- 5/25/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Wednesday, June 7, at 7 Pm, Plaza Frontenac Cinema
Poland; in English and Polish with English subtitles; 112 minutes
In the chilling crime thriller A Grain Of Truth, a hard-nosed prosecutor investigates a murder with bizarre and mysterious trappings, and finds himself immersed in Poland’s antisemitic past, a past that keeps resurfacing despite the modern world.
Murder, mystery and myth combine in the masterful and gripping A Grain Of Truth, director Borys Lankosz’s twisty police procedural thriller, adapted from the second novel in Zygmunt Miloszewshi’s fiction trilogy of the same name. The director and author co-wrote the screenplay, which crackles with suspense and eerie terror.
When the naked body of Ela Budnick is found next to a building that was once a synagogue, along with the probable murder weapon – a knife used in Jewish ritual – alarm spreads in the tiny Polish village. The investigation is assigned to Teodor Szacki (Robert...
Poland; in English and Polish with English subtitles; 112 minutes
In the chilling crime thriller A Grain Of Truth, a hard-nosed prosecutor investigates a murder with bizarre and mysterious trappings, and finds himself immersed in Poland’s antisemitic past, a past that keeps resurfacing despite the modern world.
Murder, mystery and myth combine in the masterful and gripping A Grain Of Truth, director Borys Lankosz’s twisty police procedural thriller, adapted from the second novel in Zygmunt Miloszewshi’s fiction trilogy of the same name. The director and author co-wrote the screenplay, which crackles with suspense and eerie terror.
When the naked body of Ela Budnick is found next to a building that was once a synagogue, along with the probable murder weapon – a knife used in Jewish ritual – alarm spreads in the tiny Polish village. The investigation is assigned to Teodor Szacki (Robert...
- 6/4/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The final installment of the First Time Fest… The First Time Fest’s closing night was held on March 4th. Hosted by Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist), the Players Club lit up with flashes of cameras and smiles of the first time filmmakers anxiously awaiting whose film will win the grand prize- the chance to have their film distributed by Cinema Libre Studios.
Johanna Bennett and Mandy founded the festival after noticing there wasn’t a venue for where new filmmakers can get their film viewed and appreciated. In attendance at the closing night ceremony were Tony Bennett and Jack Huston, as well as Martin Scorsese, who presented the First John Huston Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema to Darren Aronofsky, who was also in attendance. Anthony Rapp presented the awards as guests ate food from Chef Diane Dimeo and drank champagne by Nicolas Feuillatte. Also in attendance...
Johanna Bennett and Mandy founded the festival after noticing there wasn’t a venue for where new filmmakers can get their film viewed and appreciated. In attendance at the closing night ceremony were Tony Bennett and Jack Huston, as well as Martin Scorsese, who presented the First John Huston Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema to Darren Aronofsky, who was also in attendance. Anthony Rapp presented the awards as guests ate food from Chef Diane Dimeo and drank champagne by Nicolas Feuillatte. Also in attendance...
- 4/5/2013
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
The First Time Fest was created by Johanna Bennett and Mandy Ward as a way to showcase new upcoming filmmakers and their works, and to get them a head start in their industry. The festival occurred on March 1st to 4th at The Players Club in New York, which was a club started by some well-known writers and actors, including Edwin Booth (John Wilkes Booth’s brother), Mark Twain, and more.
While the festival does support new filmmakers in their journey, it also awards previous filmmakers who have made names for themselves. Being that this is the first year of the festival, the first ever John Huston Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema went to Darren Aronofsky. The award is named in honor of John Huston as he was a esteemed member of The Players Club, as well as considered to be one of the most influential writer, actor, director and producers of all times.
While the festival does support new filmmakers in their journey, it also awards previous filmmakers who have made names for themselves. Being that this is the first year of the festival, the first ever John Huston Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema went to Darren Aronofsky. The award is named in honor of John Huston as he was a esteemed member of The Players Club, as well as considered to be one of the most influential writer, actor, director and producers of all times.
- 3/16/2013
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
Eyes Wide Open
Directed by Haim Tabakman
Written by Merav Doster
Israel | Germany | France – 2010
Showing at Cinéma du Parc in its second run in Montreal following last year’s limited release, Haim Tabakman’s ‘Eyes Wide Open’ is so overwhelmingly a limited-appeal, art-house offering as to seem almost destined for festival success.
This ineffably implausible man-and-man romance tentatively unfolds deep in the heart of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood, where Aaron (played by the wistfully bearded Zohar Strauss) a Hassidic father-of-many assumes the stewardship of the familial butcher shop after the recent death of his father and hesitantly hires an assistant in the person of Ezri, a stray, toothsome, puppy-eyed yeshiva dropout with a risky-yet-oh-so-enticing penchant for same-sex friendship.
Ezri, the driving force behind the tortuous romance, is in pious Aaron’s own words a masterpiece of G-d’s creation, crossing righteous men’s paths so as to anneal...
Directed by Haim Tabakman
Written by Merav Doster
Israel | Germany | France – 2010
Showing at Cinéma du Parc in its second run in Montreal following last year’s limited release, Haim Tabakman’s ‘Eyes Wide Open’ is so overwhelmingly a limited-appeal, art-house offering as to seem almost destined for festival success.
This ineffably implausible man-and-man romance tentatively unfolds deep in the heart of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood, where Aaron (played by the wistfully bearded Zohar Strauss) a Hassidic father-of-many assumes the stewardship of the familial butcher shop after the recent death of his father and hesitantly hires an assistant in the person of Ezri, a stray, toothsome, puppy-eyed yeshiva dropout with a risky-yet-oh-so-enticing penchant for same-sex friendship.
Ezri, the driving force behind the tortuous romance, is in pious Aaron’s own words a masterpiece of G-d’s creation, crossing righteous men’s paths so as to anneal...
- 6/9/2011
- by Zornitsa
- SoundOnSight
Chicago – It’s not hard to imagine viewers of “Lebanon” starting to sweat. It is a claustrophobic tale of war that has drawn deserved comparisons to Wolfgang Peterson’s brilliant “Das Boot” and it is nearly as good a film. This surreal nightmare stands as one of the better war films of the last several years and deserves a much broader international audience than it has yet achieved.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
The reason for the audience claustrophobia is simple — almost the entirety of “Lebanon,” the winner of the prestigious Golden Lion at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, takes place inside a tank. We see out through the sights of the machine just like one of the young men in it but even that offers only part of the picture. The tank itself becomes a symbol for war as it becomes unstable along with the fearful boys inside it. Samuel Moaz’s riveting...
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
The reason for the audience claustrophobia is simple — almost the entirety of “Lebanon,” the winner of the prestigious Golden Lion at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, takes place inside a tank. We see out through the sights of the machine just like one of the young men in it but even that offers only part of the picture. The tank itself becomes a symbol for war as it becomes unstable along with the fearful boys inside it. Samuel Moaz’s riveting...
- 1/31/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
It is possible that a 90 minute movie based in a tank is one of the best of the year...
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After watching The Hurt Locker, I had an idea for a feature. The film would follow a tank crew almost entirely within the tank itself. It would depict the boredom, excitement and sheer fear of watching a war through the barrel of a cannon ala Das Boot. Having not seen Lebanon at the time (it was originally released in Israel back in 2009), I didn't know that Samuel Maoz already made this movie. Lebanon is also a lot better than I ever could have expected.
It begins in a sunflower field, a quiet and colorful environment. Then the urban warfare kicks in. By then we are in the tank, spending our time with 4 bickering crew members. The colors turn black and green. The oil of moving parts oozes onto the dials, all of which don't work.
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After watching The Hurt Locker, I had an idea for a feature. The film would follow a tank crew almost entirely within the tank itself. It would depict the boredom, excitement and sheer fear of watching a war through the barrel of a cannon ala Das Boot. Having not seen Lebanon at the time (it was originally released in Israel back in 2009), I didn't know that Samuel Maoz already made this movie. Lebanon is also a lot better than I ever could have expected.
It begins in a sunflower field, a quiet and colorful environment. Then the urban warfare kicks in. By then we are in the tank, spending our time with 4 bickering crew members. The colors turn black and green. The oil of moving parts oozes onto the dials, all of which don't work.
- 12/17/2010
- by FanboyCrew
At the beginning of the new movie Eyes Wide Open (just out on DVD), a man wrestles with a door that has been tightly locked. Finally, the man, an ultra-Orthodox (or Haredi) Jew living in Jerusalem, has to break the lock in order to open the butcher shop that has been passed onto him with the death of his father.
It's a metaphor, of course. The man, Aaron, is married to a woman, but he's secretly gay. When a hot homeless Yeshiva student, Ezri, comes around looking for a job in the re-opened butcher shop, they're soon drawn together in a secret love affair. But they're both members of one of the most socially conservative communities on earth — one that has literal "purity" police and has absolutely no place for same-sex relationships.
In other words, Aaron is going to spend a lot of time wrestling with that forbidding lock, but in the end,...
It's a metaphor, of course. The man, Aaron, is married to a woman, but he's secretly gay. When a hot homeless Yeshiva student, Ezri, comes around looking for a job in the re-opened butcher shop, they're soon drawn together in a secret love affair. But they're both members of one of the most socially conservative communities on earth — one that has literal "purity" police and has absolutely no place for same-sex relationships.
In other words, Aaron is going to spend a lot of time wrestling with that forbidding lock, but in the end,...
- 11/16/2010
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
Eyes Wide Open; The Special Relationship; The Ghost; Rapt; Robin Hood: Extended Cut; Cop Out
There may well be precedents, but I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a movie about a passionate gay relationship played out amid Jerusalem's orthodox Hasidic community. It says a lot about Eyes Wide Open (2009, 12, Peccadillo), however, that the apparent novelty of its subject matter (which has provoked the inevitable moniker "a Jewish Brokeback Mountain") never overshadows the haunting power of the film. Zohar Strauss stars as Aaron, the married butcher who invites enigmatic student Ezri (Ran Danker) into his home and business with emotionally and socially disruptive results. Religion and dawning sexuality clash as the two men embark upon a furtive, forbidden relationship under the mournful eye of Aaron's increasingly estranged wife, to the mounting hostility of the strictly demarcated community.
Demonstrating an unfussy empathy for his subjects, director Haim Tabakman...
There may well be precedents, but I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a movie about a passionate gay relationship played out amid Jerusalem's orthodox Hasidic community. It says a lot about Eyes Wide Open (2009, 12, Peccadillo), however, that the apparent novelty of its subject matter (which has provoked the inevitable moniker "a Jewish Brokeback Mountain") never overshadows the haunting power of the film. Zohar Strauss stars as Aaron, the married butcher who invites enigmatic student Ezri (Ran Danker) into his home and business with emotionally and socially disruptive results. Religion and dawning sexuality clash as the two men embark upon a furtive, forbidden relationship under the mournful eye of Aaron's increasingly estranged wife, to the mounting hostility of the strictly demarcated community.
Demonstrating an unfussy empathy for his subjects, director Haim Tabakman...
- 9/18/2010
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Eyes Wide Open Directed by: Haim Tabakman. Starring: Zohar Strauss, Ran Danker, Tzahi Grad, Isaac Sharry This searing portrait of sexuality and religion was launched at The Cannes Film Festival to an enthusiastic response. Although its subject - the cultural suffocation of gay lovers - is hardly new material, that the film explores it in the context of marriage, age-disparity and Orthodox Judaism is provocative indeed. This beautifully understated film is not to all tastes - its patient approach would induce restless toe-tapping in those more accustomed to the energy of, say, Iron Man. But if thoughtful, often painful exploration of suppressed humanity is to your taste, then Eyes Wide Open is your film.
- 8/17/2010
- FilmInk.com.au
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner in David Slade‘s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (top); Daniel Stamm‘s The Last Exorcism (upper middle); Zohar Strauss, Ran Danker in Haim Tabakman‘s Eyes Wide Open (lower middle); Isabelle Huppert in Claire Denis‘ White Material (bottom) David Slade‘s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse isn’t included on the Los Angeles Film Festival’s Thursday, June 24, schedule. Even so, the world premiere of Eclipse, starring pop idols Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner, is the top Los Angeles movie attraction of the day — possibly of the year. The world premiere of the third installment of the Twilight franchise — following Catherine Hardwicke‘s Twilight (2008) and Chris Weitz‘s New Moon (2009) — will be held at the Nokia Theatre in downtown L.A. on Thursday at midnight. Eclipse also features Bryce Dallas Howard, Dakota Fanning, Xavier Samuel, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene, Elizabeth Reaser,...
- 6/23/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart in David Slade‘s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (top); Daniel Stamm‘s The Last Exorcism (upper middle); Zohar Strauss, Ran Danker in Haim Tabakman‘s Eyes Wide Open (lower middle); Heidi Ewing, Alex Gibney, Seth Gordon, Rachel Grady, Eugene Jarecki, and Morgan Spurlock‘s Freakonomics (bottom) David Slade‘s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is nowhere to be found on the Los Angeles Film Festival’s schedule for Thursday. But whether or not it’s an "official" Laff presentation, the world premiere of Eclipse is the top Los Angeles movie attraction of the day — possibly of the year. Starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner, and featuring Bryce Dallas Howard, Dakota Fanning, Xavier Samuel, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene, Elizabeth Reaser, Peter Facinelli, and Jackson Rathbone, Eclipse is one of the most eagerly anticipated movie events of 2010. The world premiere of the third installment of...
- 6/23/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Eliza Triana in Hilda Hidalgo‘s Of Love and Other Demons (top); Samuel Maoz‘s Lebanon (upper middle); Zohar Strauss, Ran Danker in Haim Tabakman‘s Eyes Wide Open (lower middle); Jung Sung-Il‘s Cafe Noir (bottom) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World director Edgar Wright will be present to talk about his career at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Sunday evening, June 20. Star Trek‘s J. J. Abrams will be Wright’s conversation partner. Other Sunday highlights at the Laff include Samuel Maoz‘s Lebanon, Jung Sung-Il‘s Cafe Noir, Haim Tabakman‘s Eyes Wide Open, and Hilda Hidalgo‘s Del amor y otros demonios / Of Love and Other Demons. Winner of the Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival and of four Ophir Awards from the Israeli Film Academy, Lebanon takes place inside an Israeli tank on the first day of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon...
- 6/20/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Kirot, or The Assassin Next Door was shot in Tel Aviv, Israel and this female-empowerment film puts the guns in the hands of women, with the release date expected in mid-August. The Bleiberg Entertainment Group has helped produce this film with several other film companies and First Look Pictures will distribute the film within the United States. The Assassin Next Door involves two women attempting to escape the domination of ruthless men who force both Eleanor and Galia to cruel punishment and misdeeds. If you can handle brutal violence step inside director and writer Danny Lerner's world of terror with help from this trailer below.
The synopsis for Kirot/The Assassin Next Door here:
"In an old apartment building on the wrong side of the tracks, two women, unknown to each other, live across the hall on the second floor. Galia is an assassin involved against her will with the local sex-traffic mafia.
The synopsis for Kirot/The Assassin Next Door here:
"In an old apartment building on the wrong side of the tracks, two women, unknown to each other, live across the hall on the second floor. Galia is an assassin involved against her will with the local sex-traffic mafia.
- 6/1/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
This is the trailer for Lebanon, directed by Samuel Maoz and stars Reymond Amsalem, Ashraf Barhom, Oshri Cohen, Yoav Donat, Guy Kapulnik, Michael Moshonov, Zohar Shtrauss, Dudu Tassa and Itay Tiran. Lebanon is a personal film, a film about four boys who had never been involved in anything violent before and found themselves killing people. A film about survival against a palpable threat of death, a situation in which the conflict between their basic instincts and human conscious claims its victims.
- 5/16/2010
- by Dan Higgins
- Pure Movies
To build up the release of Lebanon, Pure Movies looks at other films where the main character 'loses it' including Apocalypse Now, Shutter Island, The Beach, Kids, Falling Down, A Streetcar Named Desire and The Shining. Lebanon is directed by Samuel Maoz and stars Reymond Amsalem, Ashraf Barhom, Oshri Cohen, Yoav Donat, Guy Kapulnik, Michael Moshonov, Zohar Shtrauss, Dudu Tassa and Itay Tiran.
- 5/15/2010
- by Georgie Hobbs
- Pure Movies
This is the Pure Movies review of Einaym Pkuhot, directed by Haim Tabakman starring Zohar Strauss, Ran Danker, Tinkerbell, Tzahi Grad, Isaac Sharry, Avi Grainik and Eva Zrihen-Attali. You might not necessarily assume that an Isreali film about forbidden gay love in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of Jerusalem would be full of meat gags. And yet, as Aaron and Ezri wrestle with an almost insurmountably large, phallic hunk of beef, and Aaron’s suspicious wife tries to both intimidate and punish with the size of her meat order, the otherwise tense, restrained and dangerous subtext becomes, for a moment, funny.
- 5/15/2010
- by Nell Frizzell
- Pure Movies
Lebanon (15)
(Samuel Maoz, 2009, Israel) Yoav Donat, Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov. 93 mins
You can see why they made Top Gun about jet fighters. This is set entirely within the confines of an Israeli tank during the 1982 Lebanon war, and it's not much of a recruitment ad. The gimmick is both the movie's strength and its weakness. The space and visibility restrictions make this a neat minimalist thriller and a nervy, unpredictable combat experience, but it's one safely insulated from the questions – and victims – of the real-life conflict. Despite the sweat and grime, you feel like the really dirty stuff is going on elsewhere.
Robin Hood (12A)
(Ridley Scott, 2010, Us) Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Max Von Sydow, Mark Strong. 140 mins
Scott attempts to pull another Gladiator, ditching the familiar tights and tropes and reimagining the legend through a combination of mangled history, epic set pieces and deadly earnest heroism. It's more of a prequel,...
(Samuel Maoz, 2009, Israel) Yoav Donat, Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov. 93 mins
You can see why they made Top Gun about jet fighters. This is set entirely within the confines of an Israeli tank during the 1982 Lebanon war, and it's not much of a recruitment ad. The gimmick is both the movie's strength and its weakness. The space and visibility restrictions make this a neat minimalist thriller and a nervy, unpredictable combat experience, but it's one safely insulated from the questions – and victims – of the real-life conflict. Despite the sweat and grime, you feel like the really dirty stuff is going on elsewhere.
Robin Hood (12A)
(Ridley Scott, 2010, Us) Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Max Von Sydow, Mark Strong. 140 mins
Scott attempts to pull another Gladiator, ditching the familiar tights and tropes and reimagining the legend through a combination of mangled history, epic set pieces and deadly earnest heroism. It's more of a prequel,...
- 5/14/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
A Brokeback Mountain for the Orthodox Jewish community that has some telling points to make about faith and flesh, writes Steve Rose
It was probably only a matter of time before someone did a Brokeback Mountain on the taboo-stacked world of Orthodox Judaism, although it's hard to imagine a more niche target audience. Like Ang Lee's movie, this is responsible, restrained and intelligent, but if anything, the risky subject material is handled with too much caution. Zohar Strauss (also to be seen in this week's Lebanon) plays Aaron, a devout Jerusalem butcher who divides his time between his family, his faith and his chopping board, until he's distracted by another type of beefcake: a handsome young drifter whom he takes in as an apprentice (Ran Danker). "He is a curse to righteous men," others warn, but Aaron embraces his sexual ambivalence as a metaphysical challenge – does sinning bring one closer to God?...
It was probably only a matter of time before someone did a Brokeback Mountain on the taboo-stacked world of Orthodox Judaism, although it's hard to imagine a more niche target audience. Like Ang Lee's movie, this is responsible, restrained and intelligent, but if anything, the risky subject material is handled with too much caution. Zohar Strauss (also to be seen in this week's Lebanon) plays Aaron, a devout Jerusalem butcher who divides his time between his family, his faith and his chopping board, until he's distracted by another type of beefcake: a handsome young drifter whom he takes in as an apprentice (Ran Danker). "He is a curse to righteous men," others warn, but Aaron embraces his sexual ambivalence as a metaphysical challenge – does sinning bring one closer to God?...
- 5/13/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
At 6:15 Am on June 6th 1982, on the first day of the Lebanon War, Tel-Aviv born director Samuel Maoz killed a man for the first time in his life. By the end of that day he had killed many more. He was twenty years old. Twenty-five years later he wrote the script for the film Lebanon – his cinematic confession. In the intervening years he quieted the memories of that day behind denial and outbursts of violent anger. It was the only way he felt he could survive. Trained as a gunner for The Armored Corps of the Israel Defence Forces he had only practiced kill shots on barrels of gasoline. When he returned from the war his Mother embraced him, weeping with gratitude that he had been returned to her safe and sound:
“In fact, I did not come home at all. She had no idea that her son had...
“In fact, I did not come home at all. She had no idea that her son had...
- 5/13/2010
- by Emily Breen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Last week, we got to interview the director of new movie, Lebanon which is released in cinemas 14th May. The movie is a hard hitting tale about the men inside one of the tanks and almost all of the film is shot from their claustrophobic story within the tank itself. What makes this movie all the more impacting is that it’s based on the real life experiences of director Samuel Moaz who has experienced the war first hand. The movie stars Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran, Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov, Zohar Strauss and Dudu Tassa.
Our interview will go up next week but in the meantime, here’s some images and the trailer from the movie which will tell you a little more about it.
Synopsis: The First Lebanon War – June, 1982. A lone tank is dispatched to search a hostile town that has already been bombarded by the Israel Air Force.
Our interview will go up next week but in the meantime, here’s some images and the trailer from the movie which will tell you a little more about it.
Synopsis: The First Lebanon War – June, 1982. A lone tank is dispatched to search a hostile town that has already been bombarded by the Israel Air Force.
- 5/3/2010
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Distributed by New American Vision, Eyes Wide Open will stay one more week at New York City’s Cinema Village. Directed by Haim Tabakman and written by Merav Doster, the forbidden gay love story set among Israel’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community — where homosexuality isn’t exactly welcome — stars Zohar Shtrauss and Ran Danker. The information below is from the film’s press release. Aaron, a respectable butcher in Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, is married to Rivka and is a dedicated father of four children. One day, he hires Ezri, a handsome twenty-two year old student, as an apprentice and soon develops feelings for him. As the relationship grows, Aaron starts to neglect his family and community [...]...
- 2/9/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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