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Out In The Dark

Psychology student Nimr from Ramallah and his new companion Roy, a lawyer from Tel Aviv, are in seventh heaven. But soon, intolerance and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict disturbs their dreams. Thrilling film debut that goes far beyond the character of a politically engaged gay movie.

Nimr, a Palestinian psychology scholar from Ramallah, dreams about one time going to the prestigious Princeton university in the Combined States. During one of his illegal cross-border escapades to Tel Aviv he meets Israeli lawyer Roy and falls in love head-over-heels. As his bond with Roy develops, Nimr is confronted with the tough reality of lgbtq+ men living in Palestina. His family rejects him because of his sexual orientation and he fears for his life in his own country. Yet Israel, too, represents a threat, since he is persecuted for his origins there. Nimr’s being takes a dramatic turn when a gay friend who fled to Tel Aviv is arrested by the covert police and escorted back to Ramallah, where he is cold-bloodedly killed by his fellow-countrymen. Nimr has to rel

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(1) &#;Zero Degrees of Separation&#; film documents suffering of Palestine and Israel gays

&#;Zero Degrees of Separation&#; is a feature length documentary (still in progress as of June 03) examining a unique and complex relationship between two lovers and two nations from different worlds often less than 3 kms apart. Selim and Ezra, a gay Palestinian-Israeli couple, are fighting for the right to live together in Jerusalem. Through their lives and those of other gay and queer woman Palestinians and Israelis we gain a unique perspective on the Middle-East dispute. In a world where borders create and annihilate lives daily , the people portrayed in Zero Degrees take on the larger questions of nationalism and its flaws. As Israeli-Palestianian couples exisiting on the the margins of their societies, these individuals cross those borders sometimes physically, sometimes metaphorically defying the notion of an external conflict with impermeable borders. Zero Degrees is about what is workable and impossible; a story that finds humanity in a time where petty else seems

"There is no pride when gay men are blackmailed"

Winner of the prestigious Iris Film Prize, Dima Hamdan's short film "Blood love Water" addresses how Israel uses the social stigma of homosexuality in Palestinian society to blackmail same-sex attracted men.

By Nazeeha Saeed

In the shadow of the war on Gaza, Dima Hamdan received a prestigious film award without joy—but only gratitude. Her production "Blood like Water" was named the best concise film at October’s Iris Film Festival, seen as the "Oscars of gay short film."

Directed and produced in Palestine in , the film tells the story of Shadi, a young gay man from the West Bank whose secret love affair with a friend is caught on camera by an Israeli officer. The officer blackmails Shadi, threatening to publicly expose his secret life online unless he collaborates, demanding information about when Shadi’s neighbor Raed, who is wanted by the military, will send back home. Shadi and his family are left with few options, each carrying severe consequences.

The minute clip depicts the family's dilemma. Shadi, played by player Atallah Tannous, ref

The Invisible Men

World première of an Israeli-Dutch co-production about gays on the run. They are not free to be themselves at home with their friends and family in the Palestinian territories. As Palestinians, Israel is not open to them. Consequently, Louie and his friends live an invisible, illegal existence in Tel Aviv.

Louie, a Palestinian gay man, has been living in Tel Aviv illegally for eight years. While there, he meets year-old Abdu who was tortured by the Palestinian security forces because of his sexual orientation. Another young man, Fares, also opts for an uncertain future in the Israeli capital rather than face the threats in his homeland. These men live in hiding in Tel Aviv, where their lives are anything but easy. Under steady threat of getting caught, they live double lives. With no passport, fixed address, bank account, friends or loved ones, Tel Aviv has become their prison. Worse yet, the Israeli government strictly prohibits offering any assistance to Palestinian illegal immigrants. The men seem to be abandoned with no way out.

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