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Das Boot
Why this pick
Like Lebanon, it traps a young crew inside a deafening war machine, making mechanical routine, bad information and mounting panic feel brutally immediate.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2009 1h 33m ISR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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Son of Saul
Why this pick
Its tightly restricted viewpoint and relentless sound design create a similarly disorienting, ethically harrowing experience of war seen at human distance.
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Beaufort
Why this pick
Another Israeli war film built around soldiers boxed into an exposed outpost, where waiting, procedure and fear become as dangerous as combat.
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The Beast of War
Why this pick
A Soviet tank and its increasingly fractured crew make this a strong companion: war is rendered as a confined, hostile system with little room for moral certainty.
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Kajaki
Why this pick
Its stripped-down combat ordeal shares Lebanon’s real-time intensity, concentrating on a small unit’s fear, helplessness and hard choices rather than battlefield spectacle.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film depicts warfare as witnessed exclusively from the inside of a Centurion (tank) main battle tank. The crew's window to the outside world is a Sight (device). As a way of adding realism to the effect, every change in the horizontal and vertical viewing directions is accompanied by the hydraulic whine of the traversing gun turret. The film is set during the 1982 Lebanon War. There are four Israeli soldiers inside: the driver in the tank's hull, the loader, the gunner and the commander in the turret. For part of the time there is also the body of a dead Israeli soldier (kept there until it is airlifted away), a Syrian Prisoner of war, a visiting higher officer, and a visiting Kataeb Party (Lebanese Maronite Christians allied with Israel) who threatens the POW with torture and a gruesome death.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Michael Moshonov
Yigal
Yoav Donat
Shmulik
Itay Tiran
Asi
Reymonde Amsallem
Lebanese Mother
Oshri Cohen
Herzel