Close to Home (2005)

Original title

קרוב לבית

Directed by

Dalia Hager, Vidi Bilu

Genre

drama film

Country

Israel

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two 18 year old Israeli women with very different personalities are assigned to patrol Jerusalem together. Over time they move past their initial friction and become friends while coping with their personal lives and the tense city around them.

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What happens

Close to Home (Hebrew: קרוב לבית, romanized: Karov la bayit) is a 2005 Israeli drama film directed by Dalia Hager and Vidi Bilu, and starring Smadar Sayar and Naama Schedar. It is the first film about the experience of female soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces. Smadar (Sayar) and Mirit (Schendar), both 18 years old, are assigned to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together as part of their military service. Worlds apart in their personality, their initial frosty relationship becomes a friendship as they deal with their own emotional issues, the crushes and break-ups in their love lives, as well as the political realities of the city in which they live. The film premiered at the 2005 Jerusalem Film Festival. It also showed at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival where it was awarded a prize by the International Association of Art Film Houses. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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