UK Jewish Film Festival November 2012
The Queen Has No Crown
Tomer Heymann’s poignant meditation on family, loss, and the mental maps of homelessness. The film navigates the intimate lives of five brothers and their mother, as they experience the pains of exile and the joys of family bonding. Three of the Heymann sons take their families and leave Israel for “better” lives in America. Their mother, a divorcee, is left alone in Israel with her two bachelor sons, one straight, and the other, Tomer, gay.
Exploring the politics of belonging, displacement, and sexuality, the film examines the hard decisions one family has to make, and the intractable bonds that unite them. Throughout, Tomer frames this quest in terms of its greater social and political significance. Combining 8 and 16mm footage with his own work of a decade, Tomer shows how the strength of the Heymann Family depends on forces greater than the nuclear family itself. The result
is a powerful and intimate portrait of one man, his family, and the world surrounding them.
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