Sundance 2026: Chat With ‘Tell Me Everything’ Filmmaker Moshe Rosenthal & Star Ido Tako [VIDEO]

World premiering at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, Moshe Rosenthal’s second feature, Tell Me Everything, is set in the late ‘80s, when AIDS was a death sentence and people were unclear about how it was transmitted.

The film centers on a seemingly happy Israeli family on the verge of collapse. Twelve-year old Boaz (Yair Mazor) sees his father, Meir (Assi Cohen), in an intimate moment with another man and proceeds to tell his family. Unable to deal with the situation, they cut Meir out of their lives completely. When Meir tries to see Boaz at his bar mitzvah, the boy tells his uncle and Meir is beaten up and sent away.

Flash-forward a decade and 22-year-old Boaz (now, Ido Tako), is living with guilt and confusion. He attempts to contact his dad by cold-calling men seeking men via gay newspaper ads. When he does, finally, reunite with him, the two forge a new kind of bond.

Tako masterfully plays the nuances and ambiguities of his role—we can both relate to him and wonder about who he will become. And there’s a longing in his performance that is palpable.

Rosenthal has crafted a loving work that celebrates forgiveness, understanding, empathy and acceptance.

The filmmaker made a couple of award-winning shorts before writing and directing his first feature, Karaoke, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and won the Best Debut Film and Audience Awards at the Jerusalem Film Festival as well as being nominated for 14 Israeli Academy Awards including Best Picture and Director.

Tako has appeared in a number of Israeli TV show beginning in 2020 including, Sky, Memory Forest, Hamenachem ha-25, Metukim and The German.

He starred in the queer-themed short film By His Will in 2021. Other film credits: the Israeli war thriller, The Vanishing Soldier (2023), Netflix’s biblical drama Mary (2024) as Joseph and Youthful Grace (2024).

The actor had a significant role in Tom Nesher’s deeply affecting meditation on love, loss, connection and healing, Come Closer, which was Israel’s 2024 International Feature Oscar submission—and should have made the short list!

Upcoming for Tako, Assaf Machnes’s Where To? which will world premiere at this year’s Berlinale and is about a Palestinian uber driver bonding with an Israeli passenger.

Tell Me Everything is currently seeking distribution via Paradise City Sales.

The Contending had a great video chat with both filmmaker and actor.