The Queen Has No Crown

Start date
24 November 2011
Data di fine
24 November 2011
Category
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Status
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The Queen Has No Crown

Tomer Heymann

ISRAEL, USA, 2011

85’, digiBETA, color

Versione / Original version: Ebraico, Inglese (Hebrew, English)

Sottotitoli / Subtitles: Inglese (English)

Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Tomer Heymann

Fotografia / Cinematography: Tomer Heymann, Zvi Heymann

Montaggio / Editing: Ido Mochrik

Musiche / Music: Ivri Lider, Rona Kenan, Eran Weitz, Israel Bright, Eli Soorani, Itamar Rotchild

Meditazione sulla famiglia, la perdita, le mappe mentali create dalle esperienze personali e dall’esilio. La storia di un nucleo familiare (composto da cinque figli e una madre) disgregato in seguito alla partenza di tre figli, tutti emigrati da Israele negli Stati Uniti nella speranza di una vita “migliore”. I loro sogni sono diventati realtà ma allo stesso tempo le speranze di una madre sono state demolite. I due rimasti in Israele (uno dei quali, Tomer, regista del film, omosessuale) sono restati accanto a lei, a sua volta divorziata da poco dal marito.

A moving story about the family; about loss and the mental maps of the personal experience of homelessness. Tomer Heymann’s film takes a look at the story of five brothers and their mother, the experience of living in exile, and the joy of family ties. One after the other, three of the Heymann sons and their families have left Israel in the hope of finding a ‘better’ life in the United States. They have made their dreams reality but, at the same time, have destroyed their mother’s hopes. Their mother, a divorcee, has stayed behind in Israel with her two unmarried sons; one of them is heterosexual and the other, Tomer (the film’s director), is gay.

Tomer Heymann:

Nato nella frazione di Yedidya in Israele nel 1970, Tomer Heymann studia fotografia dal 1994 al 1997 presso la Camera Obscura School of Art di Tel Aviv. Dal 1996 inizia la propria carriera di documentarista: il suo film Aviv-Fucked-Up Generation è un ritratto della rock star israeliana Aviv Geffen; It Kinda Scares Me viene proiettato in vari festival internazionali di cinema gay. Nel 2006 il suo Nubot niyar (Paper Dolls) viene presentato alla Berlinale nella sezione Panorama. Alla Berlinale 2010 viene invece presentato I Shot My Love.

Tomer Heymann was born in the locality of Yedidya in Israel in 1970. He trained as a cinematographer at the Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv from 1994-97. A documentary filmmaker since 1996, his film Aviv-Fucked-Up Generation was a portrait of Israeli rock star Aviv Geffen, and his work It Kinda Scares Me was shown at several international gay and lesbian film festivals. He was a guest of the Berlinale’s Panorama section in 2006 with Paper Dolls and in 2010 with I Shot My Love.

Premi e selezioni / Prizes and selections: Berlinale 2011 (Panorama), Krakow Film Festival 2011, NewFest GLBT Film Festival 2011

Produzione / Production: Heymann Brothers Films (Tel-Aviv, T +972 3 5602701; info@heymannfilms.com; www.heymannfilms.com)

World sales: Heymann Brothers Films

  • Start date
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