synopsis
In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen looks back on a night from her past in one of the first Parisian queer bars. Echoes of customer gossip tell the story of this legendary bar and its mysterious Jewish-Algerian owner.
Les Arcs Film Festival
MAURICE’S BAR
Credits
original title
MAURICE’S BAR
Country/Countries
France, Israel
Year
2023
Duration
15 min
screenplay
Tom Prezman, Tzor Edery
music
Tzor Edery
producer
Ron Dyens
vita
Tom Prezman
Tom Prezman is a visual artist and filmmaker, exploring both animation and live action. He writes and directs while incorporating his own family history and queer experiences. Tom utilizes his skills in film editing and cinematography in his own projects and holds a passion for foreign languages. Tom graduated in 2019 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, with a BFA in Animation.
vita
Tzor Edery
Tzor Edery is a non-binary filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist based in Tampere, Finland. Tzor has graduated in 2019 from the department of Screen Based Arts at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and is working in multiple fields including illustration, textile, tattoos, printmaking and sound. Their work focuses on immigrant and minority experience, the passing down and disappearance of cultural memory, and queer lives and history, particularly in the middle east and north africa.
