Flipping Out (2008)

Original title

Flipping Out - Israel's Drug Generation

Directed by

Yoav Shamir

Genre

documentary film

Country

Israel

Runtime

1h

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows young Israeli soldiers who travel to India after their military service. They use their discharge money for drugs, and many of them suffer mental breakdowns.

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What happens

Flipping Out is a 2007 Israeli-Canadian documentary film directed by Yoav Shamir describing the drug use of Israeli men and women in India. It follows Israeli soldiers who take their discharge bonus and travel to India, where 90 percent will take drugs and around 2,000 will eventually need professional help after experiencing drug-induced mental breakdowns, or "flipping out". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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