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Lebanon

Lebanon doesn’t have much in the way of anything Lebanese – language or gentry. It’s 1982 and the start of “First Lebanon War” routinely glimpsed claustrophobically through the periscope of an army tank manned by four reluctant Jewish conscripts. This vehicle is stencilled with the Hebrew phrase “men are made of steel, tanks are just junk”. Maybe not so much in this armoured personnel carrier. Asi (Itay Tiran) is the unsuccessful commander of three unruly charges and on day one of the invasion they are put under the command of Gamil (Zohar Shtrauss) a steely veteran paratrooper who leads them on an easy mop up mission that turns out to be far less of a slam dunk and is fraught with the horror and terror that is modern combat where enemies are not so easily defined. This latest expose of Israeli navel gazing produces a tense, original, authentic and very compelling film.

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