Antarctica

A silly and seriously promiscuous romp through gay Tel Aviv – like New York, a city that never sleeps – ANTARCTICA really turns up the heat. Omer is almost 30 and longs to find true love, but can't pull himself away from his books and his one-night stands long enough to pursue anything serious. The journalist Ronen wants him, and with him Omer finds a kindred spirit but no physical attraction. Instead, Omer wants Danny, a beautiful dancer, shy and great for the short-term, but not for the long. As Omer wrestles with his dilemma, his sister Shirley, under family pressure to marry, suddenly decides to pursue a lesbian relationship with her boss, the owner of a trendy coffee house. To make matters worse, Omer and Shirley have an outrageous Jewish mother (drag queen Miss Laila Carry, in an homage to Divine), who harps at her offspring to marry and have children. Meanwhile, Matilda Rose, a best-selling novelist, believes that aliens are going to land in central Tel Aviv and reveal everyone's secrets. ANTARCTICA is an audaciously explicit film about longing and love, featuring a strikingly attractive ensemble cast. (In Hebrew with English subtitles) – B.B.