Heymann has directed many documentary films and series in the past ten years, including long-term follow-ups and personal documentation. His films won major awards at prestigious film festivals, including his first film It Kinda Scares Me. Paper Dolls won three awards at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival and the audience’s award at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The film and TV series Bridge over the Wadi, co-produced with the American ITVS, won the Israeli Documentary Film competition, participated in IDFA Festival's prestigious competition, and won many awards around the world. Tomer's new 8-part series The Way Home was recently[when?] broadcast by the Yes Doco Channel in Israel and won the best documentary series award at the 2009 Jerusalem International Film Festival. I Shot My Love premiered at the Berlin Int'l Film Festival in 2010, won the Best Mid-length Award at Hotdocs, and was screened in major film festivals, including Dok/Fest Sheffield, Taiwan Int'l Documentary Film Festival, Kassel Film Festival, and more. The 2016 documentary Who's Gonna Love Me Now?, directed by Tomer and his brother Barak Heymann, explores the life of Saar, a gay HIV-positive Israeli man living in London whom Tomer met in Tel Aviv in 1994.[5]
Filmography
2000 - Laugh Till I Cry - 45 min
2001 - It Kinda Scares Me - 57 min
2003 - Aviv-F*****-up Generation - Documentary 35mm, 60 min