The Therapy

The film “The Therapy” will be part of the main program of the “One World” festival. It will be possible to watch it online from the comfort of your home. The stream will launch on November 8th at 12pm and will be available for the next 24 hours.

The Therapy / Zvi Landsman / Israel 2021 / 85 min. – Conversion Therapy is revealed from within for the first time. Lev, a 54 year-old divorced Orthodox Jew, attends conversion therapy hoping to be remarried to a woman. He attends one-on-one therapy sessions and group therapy, believing his unwanted same-sex attractions will disappear. At the same time, Ben, a 23-year-old social works tudent, seven years into conversion therapy, starts having doubts. In the Jewish Orthodox world, where he grew up, he was taught homosexuality is a fault that one can “cure”. But when he went to university he was surprised to discover conversion therapy is considered harmful and dangerous. Ben sets out on a research to discover the truth about conversion therapy, and learns that the way out is harder than he thought.

Language: Hebrew, English

Subtitles: Slovak, English

Topic: Gender Equality