The Queen as no Crown
tomer heymann
“The Queen Has No Crown” is a poignant meditation on family, loss, and the mental maps of homelessness. The film navigates the intimate lives of 5 brothers and their mother, over the course of a decade, through the pains of exile and the joys of family bonding. Exploring the politics of belonging, displacement, and homosexuality, the film examines the hard decisions one Israeli family has to make and the intractable bonds that unite them in the face of complicated life choices.
Tomer Heymann was born in Kfar Yedidia in Israel in 1970 and has directed many documentary films and series in the past ten years, most of them long-term follow-ups and personal documentations. Tomer also directed documentaries about local culture heroes. Tomer’s films “Aviv – Fucked Up Generation”, “It Kinda Scares Me”, “Paper Dolls” and “I Shot My Love” were theatrically released in cinemas in Israel and around the world, making Tomer one of the Documentary Film industry’s leading directors.