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Close to Home (90 mins)
Directed by Dalia Hager and Vardit Bilu
Starring: Smadar Sayar, Neama Schendar
Close to Home is an attempt to show us what life is like for teenage girls doing their national service in the Israeli army.
Eighteen-year-olds Smadar and Mirit are a contrasted pair — one a conformist, the other a natural rebel — doing routine police patrol work in the streets of Jerusalem.
Their job is called security, but what they spend their time doing is harassing and humiliating Palestinians for no good reason.
If that is the point of the film, it is firmly made.
