Search: Directed by Joseph Cedar

Beaufort (2007)

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The cast put in an excellent performance and manage to be distinct in a film where uniforms, dirt and camouflage face paint make it difficult to tell men apart.

Susanna Krawczyk · 3 out of 5

A look at the lives of Israeli soldiers serving in Lebanon at the end of the 20th century.
Footnote (2011)

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The initially breezy tone of the comedy gives way to a depiction of calculated cruelty monstrously vicious enough almost to qualify as horror, human enough to count as tragedy and nuanced enough to face viewers with a most unusual kind of dilemma, part in

Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5

Tale of father-son rivalries within the Israeli academic establishment.
Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer (2016)

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Cedar aims for emotional truth through visceral recognition and he succeeds in feeding our desire to understand what makes humans do the things we do.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5

A fixer falls in with a rising Israeli politician and is soon trying to bluff his way into the big time.
Time Of Favor (2000)

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Rather than engage with the rightness or wrongness of the Israeli position... the film gives life, colour and moral variation to a people often portrayed as monolithic in their agreement.

Nicky Falkof · 3.5 out of 5

Love, loss and betrayal in a religious Jewish community.