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Original title: Bubot Niyar (Paper Dolls)
Year: 2006
Running time: 80 min.
Country: Israel
Director: Tomer Heymann
Screenwriter: Tomer Heymann
Cast: Documentary
Music: Eli Soorani
Cinematography: Itai Raziel
Producer: Claudius Films
Genre: Documentary | Gay & Lesbian
Synopsis: Paper Dolls is a documentary film by award winning filmmaker Tomer Heymann about a group of transvestite Filipinos who emigrate to Israel to take care of elderly religious Jewish men. On their one day off per week, they perform as drag performers in a group called the Paper Dolls. On the political level, it explores the perils of global immigration. In this case, after the second Intifada, the Israeli government unofficially opened its doors to illegal workers to replace the Palestinians who were no longer allowed in the country. As tensions with the Palestinians eased, the government changed its policy and began to forcibly deport these foreign guest workers with dramatic consequences for our characters. On the human level, the film is about people who are rejected by their own families for being gay/transvestite and who emigrate and end up with jobs taking care of other people's parents who h

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Paper Dolls

2006

Tomer Heymann