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I Shot My Love

Seventy years after his grandfather escapes from Nazi Germany to Palestine, Israeli documentary filmmaker Tomer Heymann returns to the country of his ancestors to present his film Paper Dolls at the Berlin International Film Festival, and there meets a man who will change his life.
This 48-hour love affair develops into a significant relationship between Tomer and Andreas Merk, a German dancer. When Andreas decides to move to Tel Aviv, he not only has to cope with a new partner, but to manage the complex realities of life in Israel and his personal connection to it as a German citizen. Tomer’s mother, a descendent of German immigrants who was born and lived all her life in a small Israeli village, watches her children one by one leave the country she and her family helped to build, and now cannot help but try to influence the life of Tomer, the one son who remains in Israel.

Festivals and Awards:

The Grand Prix - International Festival of Ethnological Film, 2012; Best International Documentary - 11th Astra Film Festival, Romania 2012; Best Documentary - Zinegoak Film Festival, Spain 2011; Best Mid-Length Award - Hot Docs International Film Festival, Canada 2010; Audience Choice Award - Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, 2010; Best Film Award 2010 - Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, Poland, 2010; Best Director - Madrid GLBT Film Festival, Spain 2010; Special Jury Mention - Queer Lisboa Film Festival, Portugal 2010; Best Documentary - Side By Side GLBT International Film Festival, Russia 2010; Best Documentary - Official Best of Fest, USA 2010; Best Documentary- Madrid GLBT Film Festival, Spain 2010

Director: Tomer Heymann

Producer: Barak and Tomer Heymann

Production Company: Heymann Brothers Films

Cinematographer: Tomer Heymann

Editor: Ido Mochrik

Original Soundtrack: Israel Bright, Eran Weitz

Supporter(s): New Fund for Cinema and Television, ARTE

Subtitles: Hebrew, English, German

Film Name in Hebrew: אי שוט מי לאב

Seventy years after his grandfather escapes from Nazi Germany to Palestine, Israeli documentary filmmaker Tomer Heymann returns to the country of his ancestors to present his film Paper Dolls at the Berlin International Film Festival, and there meets a man who will change his life.
This 48-hour love affair develops into a significant relationship between Tomer and Andreas Merk, a German dancer. When Andreas decides to move to Tel Aviv, he not only has to cope with a new partner, but to manage the complex realities of life in Israel and his personal connection to it as a German citizen. Tomer’s mother, a descendent of German immigrants who was born and lived all her life in a small Israeli village, watches her children one by one leave the country she and her family helped to build, and now cannot help but try to influence the life of Tomer, the one son who remains in Israel.

Festivals and Awards:

The Grand Prix - International Festival of Ethnological Film, 2012; Best International Documentary - 11th Astra Film Festival, Romania 2012; Best Documentary - Zinegoak Film Festival, Spain 2011; Best Mid-Length Award - Hot Docs International Film Festival, Canada 2010; Audience Choice Award - Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, 2010; Best Film Award 2010 - Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, Poland, 2010; Best Director - Madrid GLBT Film Festival, Spain 2010; Special Jury Mention - Queer Lisboa Film Festival, Portugal 2010; Best Documentary - Side By Side GLBT International Film Festival, Russia 2010; Best Documentary - Official Best of Fest, USA 2010; Best Documentary- Madrid GLBT Film Festival, Spain 2010

Director: Tomer Heymann

Producer: Barak and Tomer Heymann

Production Company: Heymann Brothers Films

Cinematographer: Tomer Heymann

Editor: Ido Mochrik

Original Soundtrack: Israel Bright, Eran Weitz

Supporter(s): New Fund for Cinema and Television, ARTE

Subtitles: Hebrew, English, German

Film Name in Hebrew: אי שוט מי לאב

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