Gil Sima

Black Is Blue

Set in dystopian Oakland, an ex-techie trans woman uses pirated AI technology to control a young trans lover, but their love and revenge plot against a DNA-harvesting corporation unravels, leading to unexpected consequences for all.

Tropicana

The mysterious and violent murder of a cashier in a remote small-town supermarket – sends her colleague, Orly Blaish, a conservative middle-aged family woman suffering from advanced muscular dystrophy, to a tense and turbulent journey into the depths of her sexual identity. She races to her sexual spring before her body betrays her.

Concerned Citizen

Ben and Raz are painstakingly pursuing their desire to have a child, and the migrant neighbourhood where this gay couple has set up their new flat is on the up. But a conflict over a newly planted tree in the city brings deep-seated prejudices to light.

Set Me as a Seal upon Thine Heart

A gay sauna encounter between a young man and an older man becomes an unexpected lesson about love.

Guttman X 5

Five short movies, linked by an animation, inspired by the life and work of Amos Guttman, the director from Transylvania who was a pioneer in Israeli gay cinema and died from AIDS in 1993. Produced by Tel Aviv Film Festival, it is a mixture of different styles and genres and is directed by six film-makers. In the last moving episode Kati Guttman celebrates his son, who passed away twenty years ago, and also recalls for the first time his own deportation to the Nazi death camps.