- Seventy years after his grandfather escapes from Nazi Germany to Palestine, Israeli documentary director Tomer Heymann returns to the country of his ancestors to present his film "Paper Dolls" at the Berlin International Film Festival, and there meets a man who will change his life. This 48-hour love affair, originating in Berghain Panorama Bar, develops into a significant relationship between Tomer and Andreas Merk, a German dancer. When Andreas decides to move to Tel-Aviv, he not only has to cope with a new partner, but to manage the complex realities of life in Israel and his personal connection to it as a German citizen. Tomer's mother, descendant of German immigrants was born and lived all her life in a small Israeli village, where she raised five sons. One by one, she watches her children leave the country she and her family helped to build, and now cannot help but try to influence the life of Tomer, the one son who remains. I SHOT MY LOVE tells a personal but universal love story and follows the triangular relationship between Tomer, his German boyfriend, and his intensely Israeli mother.—Anonymous
- The film examines the relationship between Tomer (Tomer Heymann) and Andreas (Andreas Merk). While Tomers gaze often lingers worshipfully on Andreass eyes and lips, the real anchor in the film is Noa (Noa Heymann), the directors intensely Israeli mother. I Shot my Love looks at Israeli-German relations and at generational conflicts within contemporary Israeli life through the prism of this highly intimate love story. The story itself is quite simple: homosexual director who is up for the premiere of his new film in the German capital, meets a young German dancer in a popular Berlin nightclub. They fall in love and the dancer follows the filmmaker to Israel, where he met his mother.
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