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Paper Dolls
Original Title
Bubot Niyar- Director: Tomer Heymann
- Writer: Tomer Heymann
- Producer: Stanley F. Buchthal; Gonen Glaser
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A group of Filipino transvestites living, performing and working in Israel...the Paper Dolls are also 'caregivers' - looking after the ignored elderly.
They show a tenderness that would put any offspring to shame.
This film features a scene with a taxi driver who is the most vile and rancid man alive - his racism and disgust are heart-stopping.
It is a sad and saddening story - highlighting everything bad about the world.
A fine piece of work.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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 have been rejected by their own children because they are old, difficult, etc.
Cast & Characters
Salvador 'Sally' Camatoy;
Chiqui Diokno;
Giorgio Diokno;
Francisco 'Cheska' P. Ortiz Jr.;
Toran 'Jan' Jacob Libas;
Efrenito 'Nits' Manalili