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הבמאי תומר הימן עוקב אחרי תהליכי היצירה של הכוריאוגרף אוהד נהרין (להקת בת שבע). Six Million in Two Rooms by Tomer Heymann
Tsi-la Piran, a second generation Israeli daughter of Holocaust survivors, chooses to deal with her personal demons of the past by treating the troubled second generation of the "Other Side". Ohad by Tomer Heymann
An intimate portrait of Ohad Naharin, Israel's most dominant choreographer, and artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company.
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Heymann Brothers Films
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THE COMPANY
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.
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BARAK HEYMANN
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.
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TOMER HEYMANN
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.
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Thessaloniki LGBTI Cultural Panorama, Greece 2011
According to the voting of the audience, this documentary film has been awarded with the first prize

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The Film
"Paper Dolls" is a documentary film which explores changing patterns of global immigration and expanding notions of family through the prism of a community of Filipino transvestites who live illegally in Israel. Cast out by their families because of their sexual and gender preferences, these people work 6 days a week as live-in, 24 hour a day care givers (and in many cases as surrogate children) for elderly orthodox Jewish men, in order to earn money to send to their families in the Philippines that had rejected them. On their one free night per week, they pursue their own personal dreams as drag performers in the group they call "The Paper Dolls" in the relative freedom of cosmopolitan Tel Aviv. Despite having to deal with often harsh working conditions, threats by street criminals, fear of terrorist bombings and the constant peril of deportation, The Paper Dolls demonstrate a rare generosity of spirit, humanity and lust for life.
Award winning filmmaker Tomer Heymann enters this unusual world and by coming to know and love these subjects unearths joy, sorrow and humanity which change his life forever.
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Tomer Heymann will be available for an audience Q&A after the screenings
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Films by Tomer Heyman & Barak Heymann, both guests of honor of the Festival. They will attend all screenings, and be available for Q&A thereafter.
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A Tribute to three of Tomer Heymann's films:
Thursday, the 5th May, 18.00: "Paper dolls".
Saturday, the 7th of May, 22.00: "I shot my love", 23.00h to 23.30h Discussion with the film director- Tomer Heymann , 23.00: "It kinda scares me".
Sunday, the 8th of May, 18.00: "I shot my love", 19.00h: "It kinda scares me", 20.00 to 20.30h Discussion with the film director.
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Selected gay films now in cinemas!
Screenings will take place at:
I Shot My Love - 22/3 21:00, Filmpalette Koln
Paper Dolls - 29/3 21:00 , Filmpalette Vorauss
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Movie Review - Paper Dolls
Unlikelihood is a central peg in selecting documentary subjects. This is not a cynical observation: Just because Paper Dolls’ topic—the lives of several Filipino transsexuals who work as nurses for Tel Aviv’s elderly Orthodox and moonlight as the eponymous drag queens—is a laugh-riot of peculiarity doesn’t mean that the movie chose undeserving principals or that it goes overboard with any of its decisions.
Ideally, a film grounded in such unlikelihood provokes an audience to marvel at a world fairly alien to their own. Indeed, leader of the pack Chiqui, an androgynous pacific islander humming along a little too loudly to music on his headphones during a perfectly archetypal shul (picture a dozen black-hatted eighty-somethings deep in prayer) is in itself enough to justify the project. The grandeur of unexpectedness is not just a product of Israel’s insular culture, but is reflected by our sense of the positive correlation between religious fundamentalism and failure of tolerance.
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Paper Dolls Living on Israel's margins
By Kevin Thomas, Special to The Times
After closing its borders to Palestinian workers in 2001 in response to the intifada, Israel admitted more than 300,000 immigrants to fill the employment void. Among them were many Filipinos, including a group of pre-op transsexuals who found jobs as caregivers to elderly Jews. Several put together a drag show, performing for the Filipino community in Tel Aviv. They called their lip-synch act "Paper Dolls," which is the title of Tomer Heymann's captivating, consciousness-raising documentary, as affectionate toward the Dolls as it is critical of widespread Israeli antipathy toward the transgendered and suspicion of immigrants in general, especially amid escalating terrorist attacks.
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'Paper Dolls' cuts below the surface
By Wesley Morris
Like a lot of drag queens, the ones in Tomer Heymann's highly affecting documentary, ``Paper Dolls," don't lead a glamorous life. They've come to a suburb of Tel Aviv from the Philippines and work, mostly, as caregivers to the elderly, some of whom are Orthodox Jews. They do so in their street clothes, as men, and when their weekend shifts end, they change into their costumes (tubby Jan Jan slips into his evening gown in the stairwell of his client's building) and head to a drag show where they perform as an entertainment collective called the Paper Dolls.
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Paper Dolls In Search of a Better Life, and a Place to Be Accepted
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: September 6, 2006
Many of the films from Israel that show up on American movie screens — and most of the documentaries — deal obliquely or directly with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this context, “Paper Dolls,” which opens today at Film Forum, is both a surprise and something of a relief.
The film, directed by Tomer Heymann, is part diary and part human-interest story. It examines the lives of a group of transsexual Philippine immigrants who work as home attendants for elderly Israelis and also perform in Tel Aviv nightclubs. It also records the filmmaker’s friendship with them, including his efforts to bring them to the attention of an influential club promoter.
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Written and directed by: | Tomer Heymann |
Producers: | Claudia (Cala) Levin, Stanley Buchtel and Tomer Heymann |
Cinematographer: | Itai Raziel |
Original score: | Eli Soorani |
Editor: | Lavi Ben Gal |
This film was supported by "Cinema Project - The Rabinovich Foundation" and the "Makor Foundation for Israeli Films" |
Recent Comments
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!