Calendars of Love

Director Ayelet Heller, Producer Hilla Medalia

After 55 years of shared life, Dorit, a recently transitioned transgender woman and her wife Kumi, now fading into dementia, poignantly witness each other’s transformations and reflect on past journeys as they prepare for an unknown future.

Ayelet Heller

Director

Ayelet Heller is a documentary film director and graduate of the Tel Aviv University Film and Television School, with a career spanning over three decades. Since her debut film in 1992, The Unpromised Land, she has created and directed over 50 films and TV series for Israeli and international producers, including ARTE and PBS. Her selected credits include: Knowledge is the Beginning (2005, Emmy Award), Strawberry Fields (2006, Spirit of Freedom Award), Americans in Pyongyang (2008, ARTE), My Sister Jackie (2018), Israeli Mix (2018), The Secrets of the Brain (2019), Body Edge (2024), The 1957 Transcripts (2024, Jury Award DocAviv & IDFA).

Hilla Medalia

Producer

Hilla Medalia is an Oscar-nominated, Peabody Award-winning director, producer, and writer with six Emmy Award nominations. Her projects have screened internationally in theaters and on platforms including HBO, MTV, PBS, BBC, and ARTE. Her selected credits include: Children no More: Were and are Gone (2025, DocNYC, nomination for Oscar), Adaptation to Darkness (Docaviv, Palm Springs 2025), ADA – My Mother, the Architect (JFF, 2024), Tropicana (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival), Mourning in Lod (MTV Documentaries, DocAviv, 2023) Innocence (Venice International Film Festival, 2022), H2: The Occupation Lab (Hotdocs, Fipa, 2022), Love & Stuff (HotDocs, DOCNYC, 2020), Leftover Women (Tribeca, ARTE, 2019), The Oslo Diaries (Sundance, HBO, ARTE, 2018), Muhi (IDFA, HotDocs, 2017), Censored Voices, (Sundance, Berlinale, 2015), The Go Go Boys (Cannes, 2014), Web Junkie (Sundance, POV, BBC, 2014), Dancing in Jaffa (Tribeca, IFC, 2013). Hilla is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and she holds an M.A. from Southern Illinois University.