The Lab (2013)

Original title

Ha-Ma'Abada

Directed by

Yotam Feldman

Genre

documentary film

Country

Israel, France

Runtime

1h

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about how the Israeli military industry makes money. It shows that the country uses its experience from conflicts to develop and test weapons. These weapons are then sold to other countries with the claim that they have been proven in real combat.

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What happens

The Lab is a 2013 documentary film directed by Yotam Feldman about the Israeli military industry. At the 2013 Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival it won the award for best debut film. It was also shown at the German documentary film festival DOK Leipzig, the Antenna Film Festival in Sydney, and the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon, Switzerland. It is an Israeli, Belgian, French coproduction of Gum films. It is 60 minutes long and is in Hebrew with English subtitles. It shows how Israel's military industry benefits economically from the experience and technology developed through years of conflict and military operations, and claims that Israel makes a profit by testing weapons in the field and then selling them worldwide with the marketing that they were tested in combat. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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