Yair Hochner

Yair Hochner

Yair Hochner was born in Kfar Sava, Israel. With the encouragement of notable directors Keren Yedaya and Tomer Heiman, Yair set out to direct his script, Good Boys (Yeladim Tovim), which received acclaim as the Winner of OUTstanding Emerging Talent Award Outfest (2005); Winner of the Showtime Vanguard Award NewFest; Jury Grand Prize – Feature Film image+nation International LGBT Film Festival n Montreal; Winner of: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Cinematography -Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival; and Winner, Best Israeli Film, Eilat International Film Festival. Yair taught cinema to high school students for five years in Netania. Currently he writes fim reviews for Seret (Film), Israel’s leading cinema site. He has written articles for the Cinematheque Magazine, as well as short stories for the Tel Aviv newspaper and Camera Obscura magazine. Yair Hochner is the artistic director of the TLVFest, the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival since co-founding it in 2006. In 2007 he wrote and directed his second feature Antarctica, distributed by Regent Releasing. In 2008 he co-produced Fucking Different Tel Aviv with Kristian Petersen, the official selection of the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival.

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Yair Hochner Movies

  • 2014
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    Hands Untied: Looking for Gay Israeli Cinema
    Hands Untied: Looking for Gay Israeli Cinema

    5.4 2014 HD

    Despite the abundance of its directors and cinematographers, it was not much anticipated that one day Israel could become an incredible land of...

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  • 2008
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    Antarctica
    Antarctica

    5.7 2008 HD

    Set in Tel Aviv, focuses on an interconnected group of friends and their various relationships. At the center is the adorably bookish Omer, about to...

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  • 2008
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    Antarctica
    Antarctica

    5.7 2008 HD

    Set in Tel Aviv, focuses on an interconnected group of friends and their various relationships. At the center is the adorably bookish Omer, about to...

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  • 2005
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    Good Boys
    Good Boys

    5.6 2005 HD

    Movie follows two young gay hustlers through interwoven stories during a night in Tel Aviv.

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  • 2005
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    Good Boys
    Good Boys

    5.6 2005 HD

    Movie follows two young gay hustlers through interwoven stories during a night in Tel Aviv.

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  • 2015
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    The Big Tease
    The Big Tease

    1 2015 HD

    Exciting public masturbation and cruising in Tel Aviv, a city full of surveillance.

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  • 2015
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    Guttman X 5
    Guttman X 5

    8 2015 HD

    Five short movies, linked by an animation, inspired by the life and work of Amos Guttman, the director from Transylvania who was a pioneer in Israeli...

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  • 2009
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    Fucking Different Tel Aviv
    Fucking Different Tel Aviv

    5.2 2009 HD

    As in previous editions, lesbian filmmakers were asked to visualize their conceptions and observations of gay eroticism and sexuality, just as,...

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