Innocence
Innocenza
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MOVIE CATEGORY
In Israel there is mandatory military service, 36 months for boys and 24 for girls. It is a horizon from which no young Israeli Jew can escape, mostly because of the risk of being excluded from the community and of failing in a collective pact that is rarely aligned with the desires of young people. Through archive footage, direct documentation of war fronts and drones hovering over deserts and tanks, director Guy Davidi denounces a system that naturalizes the idea of war in an everyday context, accustoming young people to barriers, gunsights and bullets. And he demonstrates, through the off-screen voices of some young people, how the military service represents for the new generations a form of erasing of their brightest life hopes, a trauma from which there is no going back.
DIRECTORY
Documentary director born in Jaffa, Israel, in 1978, he made his first steps with a movie camera in the middle of the Israel-Palestine conflict, exploring humanity and hardship on both sides: in 2006 In Working Progress addressed the difficulties of Palestinian construction workers in Israeli settlements, and in 2008 A Gift from Heaven observed the lives of foreign workers on Israeli farms under the rocket fire of Gaza forces. After some appearances in festivals around the world, between Europe, Asia and Oceania, Davidi achieved world fame with 5 Broken Cameras, presented at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012 and nominated for Best Documentary by the Academy Awards. Innocence (2022) was presented in the Orizzonti section in Venice Film Festival. was presented in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival.
