Close to Home Director/Writers: Dalia Hager, Vidi Bilu
With little in common, newly enlisted Mirit and Smadar are partners in their army patrol unit. Frequently at odds about boys, work, and life, the two focus on their daily concerns, but Israel’s political realities have a way of intruding on ordinary lives.
This sensitive, complex documentary follows a group of gay Filipino immigrant workers in Israel who spend their days caring for the Jewish sick and elderly, and their nights performing in drag.
Director Gil Karni presents a searing, intimate portrait of the life of a Jewish settlement from its hopeful beginnings in 1990 to its turbulent end last year when Israel evacuated the Gaza Strip.
Check out the theatres, venues, box office & Festival lounges.
