29 August 2007

"The Bubble"

The trailer for the new Eytan Fox movie, "The Bubble," has just been released. Fox's 2002 film "Yossi & Jagger" was a huge hit at that year's Santa Barbara Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. That film focused on the agony of war mixed with the stress of keeping one's sexuality a secret in a part of the world where, in some places, you can be hanged for being gay.

From IMDb:
The movie follows a group of young friends in the city of Tel Aviv and is as much a love song to the city as it is an exploration of the claim that people in Tel Aviv are isolated from the rest of the country...It all begins when Noam, a young Israeli soldier, serves in the reserve forces and meets at a check point a Palestinian young man called Ashraf. Following an incident during which Noam misplaces his ID card at the check point, Ashraf shows up on the doorstep of the apartment that Noam shares with a gay man and a straight woman. How will the meeting effect all of their lives?
"The Bubble" opens in limited release on 7 September.