Berlin Film Festival - official selection for the Panorama
Israeli Academy Awards - best original drama / best actor
Tribeca Film Festival - best actor
Dallas OUT TAKES - best actor
GLAAD Media Awards - outstanding Film
Glitter Awards - Best foreign film
Milan International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival - Audience Award
Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival - Best Feature Film
Based on a true story, Yossi & Jagger portrays the love affair of two Israeli officers in a remote army base on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
Drama, 67 min.
35 mm
Language: Hebrew / English
Subtitles: English, Hebrew
Yossi - Ohad Knoller
Jagger - Yehuda Levi
Ofir - Assi Cohen
The Colonel - Sharon Reginiano
Yaeli - Aya Koren
Goldie - Hani Furstenberg
Directed by - Eytan Fox
Produced by - Amir Harel, Gal Uchovsky
Written by - Avner Bernheimer
In participation with Lama Films, ICP, FFF, Makor Foundation for Israeli Films
Director of Photography - Yaron Scharf
Editor - Yosef Grunfeld
Original Music - Ivri Lider
Yossi & Jagger portrays the tragic structure of life of young Israelis today. The film presents an enchanting ensemble of young men and women that were supposed, in this time of their lives, to dance, study and love. Instead, due to the mandatory army service and the complicated situation in the region, they have to devote their most beautiful years to their country, to be soldiers, to kill and get killed.
Without flag-waving or ideological posturing, this film tells the story of young people trying to survive in an impossible world.