Gave an interview for Israel and died: the last revelation of the world cinema classic born in Riga

The Ynet website publishes an interview with world LGBT cinema classic Rosa von Praunheim, recorded a few months before his death. The director, born in Riga, talks about his childhood, work, and activism. The interview is timed to coincide with a retrospective of his films at the TLVFest festival in Tel Aviv.

The Ynet website publishes an interview with German director Rosa von Praunheim, recorded a few months before his death in December 2025 at the age of 83 from a brain tumor. The interview is timed to coincide with a retrospective of his films at the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival (TLVFest), which will take place in the last decade of October 2026. Von Praunheim, born in 1942 in a prison in Riga, talks about his difficult childhood, creative path, and activism. He is known for his provocative films that challenged social norms and his fight for the rights of the LGBT community. In the interview, he also shares memories of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the AIDS epidemic. The festival will screen his 1971 film "It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives."