Robi is a young Israeli who lives his grandparents and works at their store. He dreams of finding true love and becoming a movie director, both of which seem increasingly difficult. His film career stalls, until he can get financial backing and his love life seems to be in similar shape. While the urban city has places to cruise for sex, Robi struggles to find an organized gay community and a committed relationship.
Acting
Sagall's restless, hungry performance — ambition and loneliness in every gesture.
Direction
Guttman's cramped framing makes Tel Aviv feel claustrophobic and vast simultaneously.
Cinematography
Neon-soaked cruising scenes that ache with hollow possibility.
Director
Amos Guttman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Guttman made this with stolen equipment and friends; it was Israel's first feature with gay protagonists, released when homosexuality was still technically illegal.
Robi's unfinished film-within-a-film mirrors Guttman's own struggles — the director died of AIDS in 1993, making this even more haunting.
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