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  • 2006
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2006
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary After closing the border to Palestinian workers, Israeli authorities sought to fill gaps in the job market by encouraging emigrant workers from other parts of the world. Among those who answered the call were Filipinos in various stages of gender transition. These individuals who see themselves in a female persona, shunned by their famil...

Directed By: Tomer Heymann

Written By: Tomer Heymann

  • 2006
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2006
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 20 m

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Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
72
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Summary After closing the border to Palestinian workers, Israeli authorities sought to fill gaps in the job market by encouraging emigrant workers from other parts of the world. Among those who answered the call were Filipinos in various stages of gender transition. These individuals who see themselves in a female persona, shunned by their famil...

Directed By: Tomer Heymann

Written By: Tomer Heymann

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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80% Positive
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20% Mixed
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0% Negative
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88
Heymann's film was originally a six-part series for Israeli TV. The feature he and his crew have made smoothly truncates those three hours into a rich, discretely damning 85-minute portrait of intolerance.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
80
Sad, sweet and oddly inspirational.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
75
Although the "weird" factor is very much in play here, director Tomer Heymann does a fine job of peeking behind the curtain and discovering real humanity at work. We not only get to know these transsexuals as people, but also their patients.
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75
There have been a number of worth documentaries about gender-benders who cross every conceivable line, but Tomer Heymann's film about a group of Filipino cross-dressers living in Israel is a drag doc with a difference.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
70
Although the film occasionally become repetitive, one can't help but be moved by the way in which these two groups of people -- who couldn't be more different in terms of background and orientation -- have found a common emotional ground.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
60
Observing the close relationships they develop with clients, the openly gay Heymann becomes, both hilariously and wistfully, part of a community that possesses in spades what's missing in his own life--the gift of happiness and living well in unfriendly surroundings.
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50
Distilled from a six-episode Israeli TV series, pic mostly fails to transcend its ramshackle structure or penetrate the inner-lives of its subjects.
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Production Company Claudius Films, L.M. Media, Heymann Brothers Films, The Film Sales Company
Release Date Sep 1, 2006
Duration 1 h 20 m
Genres
Tagline There are no promises in the promised land
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Cinemanila International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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