The Therapy
Director & Cinematographer: Zvi Landsman
Producers: Ori Szternfeld and Zvi Landsman
Editor: Shira Clara Winther
Sound design: Nin Hazan
Music: Avi Belleli
Production company: Pedro Films, Tree House Productions
Israel, 2021, 80 min, Hebrew, English with Hebrew and English subtitles
Festivals & Awards:
DocAviv Film Festival 2021 – Best Israeli Film
Supporters:
IPBC (Kan 11), NFCT, Maimonides Fund, The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program
Conversion Therapy is revealed from within for the first time.
Lev, a 54-year-old divorced Orthodox Jew, attends conversion therapy hoping to be remarried to a woman. He attends one-on-one therapy sessions and group therapy, trying to diminish his unwanted same-sex attractions.
At the same time, Ben, a 23-year-old social work student, seven years into conversion therapy, starts having doubts. In the Jewish Orthodox world, where he grew up, he was taught homosexuality is a fault that one can “cure”, but when he went to university, he was surprised to discover conversion therapy is considered harmful and dangerous. Ben sets out on a research to discover the truth about conversion therapy, and learns that the way out is harder and more winding than he thought.
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