TLV Fest - International LGBT Film Festival will take place between May 31st – June 9th at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque.
The festival organizers have selected in the official competition the Romanian film “Soldiers. Story from Ferentari” (2017, director: Ivana Mladenovic), presented for the first time in Israel. The film will have 2 screenings at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque on 02.06.2018 and 05.06.2018.
With the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv, Adrian Schiop, leading actor and co-writer of the script, will participate at the festival and at the Q&A session after the screening, between June 1-3 2018.
Soldiers. Story from Ferentari (2017, 119 minutes, Hebrew and English subtitles)
Saturday, 02.06.2018, at 19:00, Tel Aviv Cinematheque – screening in the presence of Adrian Schiop
Tuesday, 05.06.2018, at 16:00, Tel Aviv Cinematheque
Tickets: 03-6060800 ext. 9 or online http://tlvfest.com/tlv/he/2018/04/24/soldiers-story-from-ferentari/
Director: Ivana Mladenovic
Script: Ivana Mladenovic, Adrian Schiop
Cast: Adrian Schiop, Vasile Pavel-Digudai
International trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuMW679lnNE
Synopsis: Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist who recently got dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, the most notorious outcast neighbourhood in Bucharest. He plans to write a study on manele music. The pop music of the Roma community serves as a way out for some, but mostly it is one more ploy for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching his subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty and Alberto reciprocates with well-concocted signs of affection. Little by little their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn‘t understand.
TLV Fest - International LGBT Film Festivalis the only LGBT film festival in the Middle East. Selected twice (2014 & 2015) by INDIEWIRE as one of the 10 LGBT film festivals not to be missed, the festival offers a fascinating look into international and Israeli queer cinematic art. It is also an industry hub of activity.
During its 12 years of existence, TLVFest has had the pleasure to host many of the queer cinema industry’s most innovative minds. Over the years, guests have included Alan Cumming, Lea DeLaria, Bruce La Bruce, Wieland Speck (Berlinale Panorama curator), Jay Brannan (Shortbus), Jamie Babbit (But I’m a Cheerleader), Angela Robinson (D.E.B.S.), Joey Arias, Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman), Mark Christopher (Studio 54), Alanté Kavaïté (The Summer of Sangaile), Daniel Ribeiro (The Way He Looks) and many more.
More details about the festival program: http://tlvfest.com/tlv/he/en/
