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A film is a site where time and space may align in perfect unity, fall into dissonance, or completely shatter into fragments. So too is a home. It is shaped by its singular sense of time and place: by its unique warmth, but also by the ruptures and tensions that may erupt within it and break it apart. I wanted to explore these dynamics (of film and of home) through an intimate coming-of-age story that is, at its core, a story of a family like my own: born of a co-parenting agreement between my straight mother and gay father. The film depicts a crucial moment in the coming-of-age of a 14-year-old boy, capturing the tensions with his father on a day when emotional undercurrents erupt and threaten to fracture the family. This family structure is extremely rarely represented on screen. In my country, it has become somewhat more common than elsewhere, but when I was born it was still new, and I was among the first children to be raised within it. While deeply personal, the story also reflects on broader questions of how we think about family, home, and belonging. By looking back at this traumatic event, I sought to capture the undercurrents of a love that struggles to be voiced and the way a home can become uncertain. Ultimately, I wanted to reveal through cinema what was unsaid at the time, hint at the hidden aspects of the characters, and recognize how, in retrospect, we can begin to see our parents as vulnerable, too.
Country: Israel
T-Port Partner: The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University
I’m a filmmaker based in Tel Aviv. A graduate of The Steve Tisch School for Film & TV, I combine my directing work with a strong background in curation and production for major platforms, including the Jerusalem Film Festival. I also co-founded and co-edit Off Screen, an online film magazine.
2011, or a memory of it. Adi (14), born into a gay co-parenting family, spends...
