Winner of the Beverly Hills International Film Festival
Winner of the Festival du Cinéma Israélien de Paris
Winner of the Intercultural Dialogue award, JFBB – Berlin
The death of Jacob Israel de Haan is commemorated annually by the ultra-Orthodox Jews of Neturei Karta in Jerusalem, and the LGBTQ community in Amsterdam. He is a pioneer for both. In the early twentieth century, he published the first LGBTQ novel in the Netherlands. He then returned to his Jewish roots, migrated to Palestine as a Zionist, but became the spokesperson for the Orthodox community, spearheading its fight against Zionism in collaboration with leaders of the Arab world in neighboring countries. He was still writing queer poetry, about to be published in Dutch. In 1924 he was shot dead by an assassin, who was never caught. Today, never-before-heard audio recordings finally solve this 100 years old political murder mystery.
“I saw it with my mouth wide open. What? How could they uncover this?”
- Maya Sela and Yuval Avivi, Kan culture
“A spiritual cinematic experience.”
- Ofer Libergal, Srita
72 minutes.
Hebrew, English, Dutch, Yiddish.
Subtitles: English, Dutch, Hebrew.
Director, producer, cinematographer: Zvi Landsman
Production company: Tree House Productions, Interakt
Editor: Shira Clara Winther
Supported by: Kan 11, NFCT, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, EO Netherlands
“The film evokes longing for another time in our region.. Does not obey stereotypes, racism and prejudices.”
- Shani Litman, HaAretz
“Incredible. A truly extraordinary story.”
- Iris Kol, Radio 103
Riots in Mea Shearim 
Descendants of the assassins hearing the tapes for the first time 
Mattias Duyves-‘Young LGBTQs don’t know anything about their past’ 
The Homomonument in Amsterdam, where a quote by de Haan is engraved 
Israel Grovais-‘We look at him as a saint’ 
A poem by de Haan – The Moroccan boy 
Yodel Hirsch distributing anti-elections stickers 
Neturei Karta’s memorial day service for de Haan in Jerusalem 
Yudel Hirsch-‘The heads of Zionism ordered to kill the holly de Haan’ 
Director Zvi Landsman showing Yudel Hirsch how the frame looks like 
Anti-Zionist Jews burn Israeli flags in Mea Shearim 
Riots in Mea Shearim
Tree House Productions 