The Vanishing Soldier
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MOVIE CATEGORY
Shlomi, an eighteen-year-old Israeli soldier, flees from the Gaza battlefield and returns to his girlfriend Shiri. When Shlomi discovered that the military elite believed that he had been kidnapped in the chaotic confusion of war, he decided not to hide from the soldiers that he thought were chasing him. On the contrary, he decides to hide from his own identity, which has become an increasingly suffocating trap.
Despite his parents’ pleas for him to return to his military unit before the situation escalates, Shlomi makes a desperate choice and decides to pursue his dream of love. An unrestrained chronicle of the clash between love and law, which mirrors that “between running breathlessly and paralysis”: the first drives Shlomi to escape the Gaza war for Tel Aviv, into the arms of his beloved, while the second threatens his existence and the world around him.
DIRECTORY
Graduated with honors from Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem, his first film, The Death of Cinema and My Father Too, was in the official selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jerusalem Film Festival. His award-winning short films have been screened in the numerous international film festivals, including Cannes, Berlinale, Clermont-Ferrand, HotDocs and IDFA. He has also created acclaimed television series (Milk & Honey), co-created a documentary (Zohar: The Return), and most recently adapted God of Vengeance for Israel’s leading theater The Cameri. The Vanishing Soldier is his second feature film.
