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I Shot My Love

Sunday, October 23, 5pm

(Tomer Heymann, Israel/Germany, in Hebrew and German with English subtitles, 70min., 2010)

Co-Sponsor: PFLAG-Milwaukee
Community Co-Presenter: Milwaukee Jewish Film Festival
Campus Partners: UWM Center for International Education, UWM Department of Dance, Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at UWM

A beautiful, delicately moving film about different versions of nationality, of love, of home. Israeli filmmaker Tomer Heymann collects his life on video. In I Shot My Love, he addresses his camera to his most immediate loves, crafting rather smitten portraits of his indomitable mother Noa, a funny, salty powerhouse, and his lover Andreas, reserved, quiet, German. Heymann smartly edits his observations to suggest some distinctions: in domestic relationships, and in nationality, the video concluding with a visit to Andreas' family in Germany, the country Heymann's family fled. I Shot My Love is in many ways a home movie as it is a movie about being away from home. Heymann's family are refugees. Andreas emigrates to be with Tomer in Tel Aviv. Tomer's siblings have all left Israel to live in the States. But Heymman lets viewers find such connections. His method is wry attention over commentary, his mode pleasure and delight – in observation, in the company of others. Heymann is alert to feeling, though – to his boyfriend's silences, his mother's looks – and the emotion gathers, the movie culminating into a document that is as touching as it is charming.

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