12th Annual International Women's Film Festival

Program Details 

February 7, 2008 

CLOSE TO HOME (ISRAEL, 2005, 90 min. Feature, Color, In Hebrew with English subtitles, Directed by Vardit Bilu and Dalia Hagar)

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  "Vital and rewarding... combines the emotional impact of great drama with the precision, detail and context of great journalism." --Reel.com

Smadar and Mirit are two young women with conflicting personalities brought together by compulsory military service. While Mirit is quiet and Smadar brash, both are forced to reconcile the typical carefree feelings of youth with the stark reality of their situation. Given the task of patrolling Jerusalem and stopping random Palestinians to ask for identification and information, Smadar and Mirit's partnership as well as their youthful innocence are put to the test in this award-winning and thoughtful film based on the filmmakers' own experiences.

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