Now in its 10th year, the ‘Lethal Lesbian’ film festival returns to the Tel Aviv Cinematheque on November 10-11. Always a crowd pleaser, this popular festival is often sold-out. A Wider Bridge spoke with festival organizers Lior Elefant, Anat Nir and Dana Ziv. The ‘Lethal Lesbian Festival’ in Tel Aviv is an Israeli film festival […]
The New York Premiere of “A Queer Country,” a film on the contradictions and complexities of Israel’s thriving queer scene, will take place on Sunday, October 22nd, 2017, at the Margaret Mead Film Festival. British filmmaker Lisa Morgenthau’s documentary, “A Queer Country,” looks at Israel from an LGBT perspective. Initially it feels like it’s going […]
Israeli director Tali Shalom-Ezer’s American debut film, “My Days of Mercy,” stars Ellen Page and Kate Mara as lovers against the backdrop of a death penalty case. Ellen Paige and Kate Mara as lovers in “My Days of Mercy” “My Days of Mercy” is a film about the death penalty, with a lesbian romance intertwined […]
The groundbreaking Israeli film festival Lethal Lesbian will be held on November 26 at the Tel-Aviv Cinematheque and will screen films about identity, love, politics, sex, relationships and culture. Lethal Lesbian Film Festival returns for the eighth time, and brings with it an opportunity to watch a variety of features and documentary films, funny and […]
‘Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?,’ a film by gay director Tomer Heymann and his brother Barak exploring gay/queer issues in Israel has won the prestigious AICE $25,000 prize for Best Israeli Feature Film The AICE Israeli Film Festival has announced the winner of the $25,000 prize for the best Israeli feature film, or documentary. The […]
The idea for the new documentary Who’s Going to Love Me Now? began like a lot of gay stories: with a one-night stand. The film, winner of Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival, screens Sat., July 30, 9:15 p.m. at the Castro Theatre, part of the San Francisco Jewish […]
Edition # 36 of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival unfolds July 21-Aug. 7 at venues around the Bay, and Michal Vinik’s lesbian teen movie “Blush” makes its SF premieres during the festival! Edition # 36 of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival unfolds July 21-Aug. 7 at venues around the Bay: the Castro Theatre […]
The first-ever Kooz Queer fest, which had a modest bow earlier this month in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, made little ripples of history in its own right. The tiny three-day fest, established by grassroots org Aswat-Palestinian Gay Women, and held across a handful of Haifa coffee shops and art venues, opened up a […]
Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m.: “The Bubble,” a seriocomic story of a Palestinian man living incognito in Tel Aviv because he is in love with an Israeli man. EROS FILM FESTIVAL is at Cinestudio, 300 Summit St., on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Admission to each film is $9, $7 seniors and students, […]
‘Reality Check’ by Michal Vinik and ‘Alice’ by Dana Goldberg were the two stand-out movies on the 5th Lethal Lesbain Film Festival in Tel Aviv on Saturday. Festival founder, Anat Nir, talks to us about the sold-out event. About 1000 women of the LGBT community arrived on Saturday for the 5th annual ‘Lethal Lesbian Festival’ […]