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About Paper Dolls
The movie is intense and so impressive.
During watching the movie your mood will switch from happy to sad to hopeful.
A great movie, well done and it will be afterwards in your mind!
hi, my daughter (14) and me we saw your movie. I was deeply touched. It was so undisguised, honest. Please let us know, where we can find the song the Queen has no crown - i think, Tomer said, original the song says queen has no home… Is it from Chava Alberstein? Thank u very much - my daughter loves the song (and the movie as well), and I want to give it to her as a present. by the way: the movie gave us an idea of Passover. This year we are invited to our first passover near Haifa. Thanks a lot, warm greetings Martin
Heymann Brothers Films has been operating for over a decade and specializes in long term documentary projects with a social and political orientation, as well as very personal ones. The company was founded by Tomer Heymann, one of the leading documentary directors in Israel. In 2001 he created “It Kinda Scares Me” which won the Academy Award in Israel, and other awards in Torino, Milan, New York, Taipei and Melbourne.
In 2003 his film "Aviv - Fucked Up Generation" came out commercially and brought a vast amount of viewers to the cinemas, as it correspondingly participated in many festivals worldwide.
Barak Heymann joined the "Heymann Brothers Films" company in 2003 and has since directed and produced several documentary films and series. “Heymann Brothers Films” is an independent Israeli company dedicated to the release of documentaries on the social aspect of the Israeli/Jewish culture.
Tomer Heymann was born in Kfar Yedidia in Israel in 1970 and has directed many documentary films and series in the past ten years, most of them long-term follow-ups and personal documentations. His films won major awards at different prestigious film festivals including his first film “It Kinda Scares Me”. “Paper Dolls” won three awards at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival and the audience’s award at the Los Angeles Festival. The film and TV series "Bridge over the Wadi”, co-produced with the American ITVS, won the Israeli Documentary Film competition, participated in IDFA Festival's prestigious competition and won many awards around the world. Tomer's new 8-part series "The Way Home" was recently broadcasted by the Yes Doco Channel in Israel and won the best documentary series award at the 2009 Jerusalem International Film Festival.
"Because he presented an exposed, direct and unapologetic homosexual experience."
Tomer Heymann’s sexual orientation has always been present in his cinematography. Already in his first film, ‘It Kinda Scares Me’ he examined how youths from a poverty-stricken neighborhood respond to it; in ‘Paper Dolls’, the very choice of foreign workers with a malleable gender identity for heroines did the trick. However, it is in the documentary series ‘The Way Home’, his most personal and individual work recapping 13 years of obsessive documentation, that Heymann has managed to pack in a complete homosexual beingness, exposed and direct and which is impossible not to identify with. It had everything: destructive relationship; forbidden love; partying and one-night stands; loneliness; healthy relationship hindered by self-sabotage mechanisms and so on. It wasn’t just a series about homosexuality- it also had the collapse of the family unit, the rough kibbutz way life that is crumbling down and a thousand further human pieces that make up the family mosaic. And yet, when Heymann’s camera skimmed over the exposed bodies of the colleagues of a military base or followed the faces of hunks in a memorial assembly in the square, we felt that such precise homosexual Israelism has never been successfully conveyed by anyone before.
Article by Maya Mena | Ha-ir Haaretz Translated by Noa Kurzweil
Who's Gonna Love Me Now?
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Aliza
The Queen Has No Crown
I Shot My Love
The Way Home
Debut
Black Over White
Cinderellas
Bridge Over the Wadi
My Village
Paper Dolls
Aviv (Fucked Up Generation)
It Kinda Scares Me
Laugh Till I Cry
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Recent Comments
About Paper Dolls
The movie is intense and so impressive. During watching the movie your mood will switch from happy to sad to hopeful. A great movie, well done and it will be afterwards in your mind!
About The Queen Has No Crown
hi, my daughter (14) and me we saw your movie. I was deeply touched. It was so undisguised, honest. Please let us know, where we can find the song the Queen has no crown - i think, Tomer said, original the song says queen has no home… Is it from Chava Alberstein? Thank u very much - my daughter loves the song (and the movie as well), and I want to give it to her as a present. by the way: the movie gave us an idea of Passover. This year we are invited to our first passover near Haifa. Thanks a lot, warm greetings Martin