Tomer Heymann

Tomer Heymann was born in 1970 in Kfar Yedidia

Tomer Heymann was born on October 12, 1970, in Kfar Yedidia. He grew up there in a family of 5 sons. His mother is the daughter of a Jewish man who fled Germany on the eve of World War II.

He studied at the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem. He later moved to the Camera Obscura School of Art to focus on cinema, and there his interest in documentary film grew.

His first known film, It Kinda Scares Me from 2001, followed him and a group of teenagers he guided for a year, and in it he came out as gay. He has made more than 10 documentary films and series, many about people on the margins of Israeli society, often with his brother Barak Heymann. His works include Paper Dolls, Bridge over the Wadi, the series The Way Home, I Shot My Love and Who's Gonna Love Me Now?.

He is a member of the public council of the New Israel Fund. He is a father of 2.