Plot Summary
Yaron, an elite special operations squad leader, is the spiritual leader and alpha male among his peers, a small, highly trained team that is part of the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Anti-Terrorism unit. These men work, play, laugh, and cry together. They are true patriots. Yaron’s wife is expecting their first child, and the failing health of a team member weighs on his soul, and the price that must be paid as a result of this. As the story shifts, the antagonists are introduced: a small group of politically extreme individuals with their own vision of how Israeli society should be.
Prizes and Awards
San Francisco International Film Festival 2012 -New Directors Prize
Locarno International Film Festival 2011 -Special Jury Prize
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2012 – best director
Jerusalem Film Festival 2011 -The Gottlieb Award for Best Screenplay
Village Voice Film Poll 2011 – VVFP Award
Philadelphia Film Festival 2011 -Jury Award
Festivals
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2012
CPH PIX 2012
Indiewire Critics’ Poll 2011
Jerusalem Film Festival 2011
Locarno International Film Festival 2011
Lume International Film Festival 2012
Nantes Three Continents Festival 2011
Philadelphia Film Festival 2011
San Francisco International Film Festival 2012
Stockholm Film Festival 2011
Village Voice Film Poll 2011
Warsaw International Film Festival 2011