Trunks (2011)

Trunks (2011)
Director: David Hewitt
Writer: Kevin Money
Genre: Short movie
Country: UK
Language: English
Duration: 12 min
Year: 2011
Stars: Frazer Douglas, Kiki Kendrick, Alex Magliaro

Steve je jedan od onih "str8" likova što jedno misle, drugo rade, a treće pričaju. Dok je u bazenu ispod vode osjeća se kao gay i privlače ga muškarci, međutim izvan bazena je str8. Hoće li i na koji način objasniti svojoj djevojci da je izvan bazena isto ono što i u bazenu pogledajte.


Trunks (short film) from David Hewitt on Vimeo.
Steve knows he’s straight, but under the water at his local swimming pool he feels gay. Will he tell his ex-girlfriend the whole truth?
One of the themes in the film explores the difference of truth between what Steve says and what Steve actually does. This layer is amplified when Steve is talking to his ex-girlfriend about the amazing incident that changed in him. She is the one person he doesn’t want to tell, but at the same time she is the only person he can tell. I hope the chosen story form of dividing the visuals and audio helps to illustrate the various layers in Steve and Ruth’s story. The aim was to give the audience a more complex understanding of what Steve is actually feeling inside and what this change in his identity means to him.

Walk on Water (2004)

Walk on Water (2004)

Director: Eytan Fox
Writer: Gal Uchovsky (screenplay)
Genre:Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, Sweden
Language: English,German, Hebrew
Duration:103 min
Year: 2004

Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters, Gideon Shemer, Carola Regnier

 

 

 

 

Eyal je član Mossada zadužen za eliminaciju neprijatelja. Po povratku iz posljednje misije, saznaje da mu je supruga počinila samoubojstvo te je povučen s rada na terenu dok ne prođe psihološku procjenu. Za to vrijeme dobiva manji zadatak zbližavanja s unucima ostarjeloga nacističkoga zločinca da bi se saznala njegova trenutna lokacija. S vremenom Eyal razvija prijateljski odnos s Axelom i njegovom sestrom Pijom, te počne dovoditi u pitanje svoje vrijednosti i posao.

 

Većina ljudi živi onako kako su ih naučili u skladu sa svojim mogućnostima,poštujući sistem vrijednosti uspostavljan u porodici i društvu.
Rađanje, djetinjstvo, učenje, vjenčanje, stvaranje potomstva,radi, penzija i kraj.
Sad u sve to ubacimo malo religije, zakone, socijalne okolnosti i životna čorba je završena.
Medjutim predvidljivost naših sudbina nije tako jednostavna, jer u ljudskoj prirodi je da traži način da promjeni nepromjenjivo, sazna nepoznato i iskusi neiskušeno.
Upoznavajući jedni druge, putovanja u druge zemlje, upoznavanje drugih kultura, moralnih i društvenih vrijednosti otvoriće nam vidike i navesti nas da promjenimo sistem vrijednosti za koji smo mislili da je vječan.
Tako je Eyal, kruti agent mosada  upoznao veselog Alexa koji o životu razmišlja na način da se sve može promjeniti i ostvariti snovi u kojima hodamo po vodi.
A kako ćemo to uspjeti? Budite iskreni, bez loših misli i volite ljude oko sebe.

 

"Walk on Water" is an Israeli film released in 2004. It stars Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, and Caroline Peters. It was directed by New York-born Israeli director Eytan Fox. The screenplay was written by Gal Uchovsky. Most of the dialogue takes place in English, although there is much in Hebrew and German. Its name derives in part from Jesus' walking on water.

Eyal is an agent in Mossad, the Israeli security service. He is a hitman who targets enemies of Israel. His wife has recently committed suicide, and the agency decides that he needs to take on a less challenging assignment: to find an aging Nazi war criminal and get him "before God does".

In order to track down the old man, Eyal poses as a tour guide and befriends the Nazi's adult grandchildren, Axel and Pia. Pia lives on a kibbutz, an Israeli commune. Her brother Axel visits her in order to convince Pia to return to Germany for their father's seventieth birthday. It is later revealed that Pia's estrangement with her parents began when she discovered that they were hiding her grandfather. She shares this information with Axel.

Although he has a job to perform, Eyal truly befriends Axel and Pia. Axel and Pia are decent people who demonstrate that most Germans have gotten beyond the hatred that led to the Holocaust. They spend time together and Eyal enjoys himself, even if he would not openly admit so. His friendship with Axel allows him to display some humanity, letting down his tough-guy machismo. Eyal and Axel even take a mud bath by the Dead Sea, showering off together in the nude afterward.

When the three are at dinner one night in a Tel Aviv restaurant, Axel speaks privately to the Palestinian waiter, Rafik, and finds out where the best club in town is. Later that evening, Axel, Pia, and Eyal arrive at the club. Eyal is shocked to discover that it is a gay club. He sees Axel dancing with Rafik and is taken aback.

Eyal is initially disgusted and disappointed to discover that Axel is gay. He asks to be removed from the assignment, not attempting to hide his homophobia as the reason. His boss, Menachem, insists that Eyal finish the mission. Eyal visits Germany and comes to realize that Axel's orientation is unimportant. During the visit, Eyal defends a group of Axel's transsexual friends from attackers and, in doing so, reveals that he is fluent in German. He tells Axel that his parents were German, leaving out that most of the Jews in his mother's region of Germany had been killed by Axel's grandfather. Later during the visit, Eyal runs into Menachem, whose family was also killed by the grandfather's Nazi activities.

Axel invites Eyal to his father's birthday party. The guests are uncomfortable about Eyal's nationality and religion, but still polite. After the cake is brought out, Axel's parents surprise the guests by bringing out Axel's aged grandfather. Axel angrily confronts his mother and goes to Eyal's room, only to find a folder full of information on Axel's family. Meanwhile, Eyal meets with Menachem and tells him that they can easily take the grandfather and bring him to Israel to be tried for his war crimes. Menachem reveals that they are the only two on this mission, and the aim is to kill the grandfather. Eyal is clearly conflicted, but takes the case of poisons that Menachem gives him.

Eyal arrives at Axel's house and enters the grandfather's room, unbeknownst to all but Axel. Axel sneaks up behind Eyal and watches as he fills a syringe with poison, doing nothing to intervene. Ultimately, though, Eyal is unable to fulfill the task. He leaves, and Axel tenderly caresses his grandfather's face before turning off his oxygen tank, killing him. He goes to Eyal's room, where Eyal tells him that the suicide note his wife wrote told him that he kills everything that comes near him. Eyal says that he doesn't want to kill anymore and breaks down in Axel's arms.

The story jumps ahead 2 years. Eyal and Pia are married with a child named Tom and living on the Kibbutz. Eyal and Axel remain good friends.

 

Tel Aviv Pride 2013 - Arisa feat. Omer Adam

 

Tel Aviv Pride 2013 - Arisa feat. Omer Adam

Check out the official Arisa video produced for Tel Aviv Pride 2013

I Do (I) (2012)

I Do (I) (2012)

Director: Glenn Gaylord Writer: David W. Ross
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Language: English Duration: 91 min
Year: 2012

Stars: Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Alicia Witt, Maurice Compte, David W. Ross, Grant Bowler

“I Do” je američka drama o britanskom gej momku koji nakon bratove smrti živi u USA, brinući se o bratovoj ženi i njenoj maloj kćerci. Radeći kao fotograf stekao je prijatelje uglavnom gay orjentacije. Nakon što se suoči sa imigracionom politikom SAD-a po kojoj treba da napusti državu ukoliko ne želi deportaciju, ženi se sa prijateljicom lezbijkom Ali kako bi dobio zelenu karton.
Nakon intervjua sa službenicima I.C.E. Ali se uplaši i podnese zahtjev za razvod.

Jack upoznaje španskog arhitekta Manola u kojeg se zaljubljuje i sa kim želi da živi. Medjutim iako je Mano državljanin SAD-a, vlasti ne priznaju gay brak kao osnovu za dobijanje zelenog kartona.
Mano u jednom trenutku dobije poziv od majke u Španiji da mu je otac bolestan i da treba da se vrati da brine o njemu i o imanju. Traži od Jacka da pođe sa njim u Španiju u kojoj je gay brak legalan.

Iako film želi da pokaže diskriminaciju gay brakova u odnosu na heteroseksualne brakove, meni lično to nije ostalo upečatljivo u filmu. Pažnju mi je zadržala Jackova dilema, da li da napusti SAD i ode sa čovjekom kojega iskreno voli ili da ostane u SAD sa prijateljima, ali bez Manola.  Gledajući u avionsku kartu koju mu je Manolo ostavio na stolu Jack se odlučuje da ostane u americi.
Zbilja da li smo spremni da žrtvujemo ljubav, zarad svojih navika i načina života? Nemojte biti lakomisleni i odmah kao u srceparajućim filmovima reći - Pošao bih sa njim i na kraju svjeta-
jer to naprosto nije tako. Ostaviti  posao , prijatelje, roditelje, porodicu i otići tamo negdje gdje nikoga ne poznaješ?
Iz ličnog iskustva znam da razum može da prevlada srce. Početkom 90-tih sam se suočio sa raskidom koji me je pratio čitavog života. Realna situacija je bila da ne možemo biti zajedno. Protiv nas je bila porodica, profesija, prijatelji, država, politika , rat i sve druge okolnosti. Kobna geška da se razdvojimo napravila je ogromnu ranu koja nikada nije do kraja zaliječena, uvjek stoji u srcu i ponekad zaboli, tek toliko da podsjeti da se nikada neće ponoviti ono što sam nekada imao.

“I Do” is an American comedy drama movie. Following the death of his brother Peter (Grant Bowler), he enters a green card marriage with his lesbian best friend Ali (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) so that he can stay in the country to help his widowed sister-in-law Mya (Alicia Witt), but is then forced to confront the unequal status of same-sex marriage as he meets and falls in love with Mano (Maurice Compte). Jack (David W Ross) is a gay Brit living in New York. When his brother (Grant Bowler) gets killed in a car crash, Jack is left to raise his niece, Tara, with his sister-in-law Mya (Alicia Witt). When Jack’s work visa is denied moving back to England isn’t an alternative. With Tara, now seven, and Mya, struggling through medical school, he can’t leave them behind. Faced with exile and no other means to stay in America, Jack marries his lesbian best friend Ali (Jamie-Lynn Sigler). When Jack falls for a Spanish architect Mano (Maurice Compte), a U.S. citizen, and I.C.E officers detain and interview Ali and Jack, a terrified Ali files for divorce. Mano, ready for commitment, believes he can marry Jack and keep him in the country. Their lawyer informs them that even though Mano is a citizen, immigration is a Federal level right not afforded to gay marriage on a State level.