Bi The Way
Director：Amir Ovadia Steklov
Screenwriter：Amir Ovadia Steklov
Cast：Amir Ovadia Steklov, Ines Moldavsky, Rony Doron, Huan Jiang
Producer：Amir Ovadia Steklov
Cinematographer：Amir Ovadia Steklov
Running Time：16min
Region：Germany, Israel
Year：2022
Language：English
Production Company：The Glass Prince
SYNOPSIS
Bi The Way is a short, funny, and intimate animated film about Amir’s life- journey as a bisexual cis man.The film tells Amir’s story from early childhood until present day, highlighting his struggle to fit into binary culture making him unacceptable to the heteronormative community and invisible in the LGBTQIA community.
Dr. Maya Lavie-Ajayi and PhD candidate Zeinab Nobowati join in on the films historical-social discussion, providing background knowledge in queer and feminist theories to the subject matter of the film. They also shed light upon the hidden mechanisms of the modern western binary culture and why non-binary people struggle to fit in.
Director Biography
Amir Ovadia Steklov is a Berlin based Israeli filmmaker /animator. His films are dealing with burning topics of: Racism, LGBTQIA, immigration and Jewish identity, he put them in a sex-positive framework and combined with dark humor.Amir graduated from Sam-Spiegel Film School in 2013 and worked as an independent film editor and animator since then. He is also part of a growing movement of queer-activists-filmmakers in Berlin Germany.Bi The Way (16, 2022)Don’t Be a DICK! (10min, 2020)Charging Up (2min, 2020)Between Two Walls (30min, 2019)Hamudi (5min, 2015) Fireworks (3min, 2007 – 2015) In The Next Lifetime (5min, 2014) TESLA (∞min, 2014) Kilo Coke (4min, 2013) Dark Night of the Soul (10min, 2012)
Director's Statement
My motivation for making this film is very personal: As a queer-bisexual cis man, I had a very unique life·journey with my sexual·identity, and I researched this topic my entire life. Thus, I believe I have a lot to say about it. Being bisexual is very queer: I never feel 100% belong to the gay community and also not 100% belong to the heteronormative world. I also feel these communities never really accept me for who I real am. I would like this film to be an international voice of people like me, who straggle to find their place in our binary world.
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