Country: Israel, France
Year: 2007
Duration: 47'
war movie Summer of 2006, Israel-Lebanon war in Nahariya, an Israeli border town. A ghost town. Images and voices of the past and the present merge to portray generations addicted to war even as they are its victims. “In the summer of 2006, during the Lebanon war, I went back to Nahariya, my hometown, located only ten kilometers from the Lebanese border. Walking in the streets of the empty town, whose residents had fled south, is also a return to the past, to another war I spent in Nahariya – the 1973 Kippur war, which had a destructive impact on our family. And so, War Movie uncovers multiple layers of war and becomes a ‘wars’ movie. Combat is everywhere: at home and on the streets, on old tape recordings and on TV. Personal and national history confront each other, as I painfully follow the endless cycle of wars, from the October 1973 war, through December 1977, when hope for peace emerged, until the August 2006 war.”
Biography
film director
Carmit Harash
Carmit Harash (Israel) graduated from the Jerusalem Film School and in 2000 moved to France, where she currently lives. Film de guerre (2007), Demain (2010) and Trêve form a trilogy about the addictive connection between Israelis and war. The three films were presented at the Torino Film Festival. Her recent work of three feature films explores the fractured French society and its political relations with its ethnic minorities. Her film Attaque received the TFFdoc Special Jury Award in 2016. This year she is a member of the TFFdoc jury.
FILMOGRAFIA
Le cercle de l’exil (mm, doc., 2003), Film de guerre (mm, doc., 2007), Demain (mm, doc., 2010), Trêve (doc., 2013), Où est la guerre (doc., 2015), Attaque (doc., 2016), Christelle (doc., 2017).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia, montaggio, suono/director, screenplay, cinematography, film editing, sound
Carmit Harash
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
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