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The Israel Film Festival, which has been consistently LGBT-friendly, this year brings us Melting Away (2011), the moving story of a transgender woman and her family. Synopsis below:

The discovery of Assaf secretly being a cross-dresser is too much for Shlomo and so he banishes his child from home. Years later, Gallia hires a private detective to find their son, as Shlomo is dying from cancer. The detective finds Anna, the beautiful transgendered singer at a Tel Aviv nightclub. This heartfelt drama of family, love, and understanding was conceived in reaction to the deadly attack on the Tel Aviv LGBT Youth Centre and shock of parents refusing to visit their injured children.

The movie has been rated R21 (why am I not surprised?) and is in Hebrew with English subtitles. You can buy tickets from the Cathay website or find out more details about the film festival in their programme booklet.

Another queer film coming from Israel appears to be Yossi (2013), the story of a gay man finding love in an unexpected place. The IFF Facebook page appears to have a contest for tickets to the advance screening that ends on Sunday, if anyone's interested.