Lebanon (2009)

Name of Film	Lebanon (2009)
Original Title	Levanon
Director	Samuel Maoz
Country	Israel
Language	Hebrew
Mins	90 mins
Format to be screened
Festival & Awards	2010 Won Asia Pacific Screen Award                                                           Best Screenplay Samuel Maoz                                                 Jury Grand Prize Samuel Maoz                                                 Award of the Israeli Film Academy                                                 Bronze Camera 300 Best Cinematography                                                 Golden Frog Best Cinematography                                                 DFWFCA Award       Best Foreign-Language Film                                                 European Discovery of the Year             Samuel Maoz                                                 European Film Award                                                 Silver Ribbon Best Director - Non-European Film                                                 Wolgin Award                                                 Golden Reel Award                                                 Human Values Award                                                 Golden Lion    Samuel Maoz                                                 Nazareno Taddei Award             Samuel Maoz                                                 SIGNIS Award - Honorable Mention Samuel Maoz
Producer	Uri Sabag Einat Bikel
Synopsis	The film depicts the inside of a tank, and the view from inside through the gun sight (every change in the horizontal and vertical viewing direction is accompanied by the hydraulic whine of the traversing gun turret). The film is set during the 1982 Lebanon war - the same war as in Waltz and the film Beaufort. There are four Israeli soldiers inside: the driver in the tank's hull, the loader, the gunner and the commander in the turret. Part of the time, there is also the body of a dead Israeli soldier (kept there until it is taken away by helicopter), a Syrian POW, a visiting higher officer, and a visiting Phalangist (Lebanese Maronite Catholic allied with Israel) who threatens the POW. The duty of the soldiers is to clear a Lebanese area from lebanese citizens. They are instructed to use phosphorus grenades that are forbidden by international treaty, but to use a code word for them, to conceal their use. The gunner has never fired the tank's cannon in a war situation, and is hesitant at first. As a result, a fellow Israeli soldier is killed. The soldiers have to cope with the deteriorating state of the tank, the heat, bad atmosphere and small space inside, occasional failure of the communication equipment, navigational problems, and mutual quarrels.
Note on Director	Shmuel (Shmuel) Maoz was born in Tel Aviv. At the age of 20, he was a gunner in one of the first Israeli tanks to enter Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War.[2] After the war, he trained as a cameraman at the Beit Zvi theater school, and did art direction in film and television productions.
High Resolution Pictures
Trailer Link	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMRD3z_mTqI
Sources	New York Times, Wikipedia, IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483831/ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/459384/Lebanon/overview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMRD3z_mTqI