Quest for the Missing Piece,The

Quest for the Missing Piece could also be titled “the unkindest cut of all.” It’s a funny, disconcerting romp through the debate over circumcision. Using a gentle touch in a sensitive area, filmmaker Oded Lotan takes us on a bris tour: a Jewish baby, a Moslem seven-year-old, and an adult Russian-Israeli soldier. Circumcision may be a Biblical mitzvah, but many commandments are routinely ignored by most Jews. Why not this one? Lotan introduces us to his gay, goy lover (oy); to his mother, who endorses circumcision, but not gay love (oy yoy); and to a Tel Aviv anti-circumcision group dedicated to having “intact” Jewish children (oy yoy yoy!). Does secular circumcision survive because Jews are afraid their children will no longer “look like” them or because this sign carved in flesh is really what binds the tribe?

From 2008 Festival: Director, Israel Biography: Oded Lotan was born in 1975 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He graduated with special honors of the Sam Spiegel School of Film and Television in Jerusalem. Filmography: 2000-2002 Working as a director for commercials and television Production Companies. 2003-2004 Guest student in the DFFB (Deutsche Film School Academy Berlin) 2005 Working as a director and video editor in Israeli T.V 2006 “The Quest for the Missing Piece” 52min/60min Documentary a co-production for the Israeli channel 2, Arrte and Byrischer Rundfunk (BR). 2007 - 2008 “Screenz” 1st season - TV drama Series. 8 different stories of Relationships over the internet. Director (Story-line: “bears”) “Screenz” 2nd season. Development director. “Until the Marriage” TV Drama series. director. for Israeli channel 2 “Closet stories” A documentary mini series about the History of the Homosexuality in the holy land. In development