Policeman

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Official Selection of the New York Film Festival and winner of multiple Best Feature Film and Best New Director awards at numerous international film festivals, including Locarno Int’l Film Festival.
Nominated for 7 Israel Film Academy awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay.
Yaron, an elite special operations squad leader, is the spiritual leader and alpha male among his peers, a small, highly trained team that is part of the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Anti-Terrorism unit. Like a band of brothers, these men work, play, laugh, and cry together. They are true patriots; they love their country, their families, and each other. Yaron is ambitious and energetic, but a cyclone of emotions consumes him. His wife is expecting their first child, and the failing health of a team member weighs on his soul as the men contend with an unforgivable accident resulting from a miscalculation during a recent rescue mission, and the price that must be paid as a result of this.
As the story shifts, the antagonists are introduced: a small group of young, passionate, idealist, and politically extreme individuals with their own vision of how Israeli society should be. They see themselves as a Robin Hood of sorts, and although their means involve methods of terrorism, set forth to make their misguided vision a reality. Circumstances swell, and Yaron faces something he never imagined; the prospect of the very sort of evil he works to eliminate taking on the form of his beloved Israeli countrymen. For the sake of his team, his expectant wife, and himself, he must hold himself together and perform his duties.

Review

WINNER – Special Jury Prize – Locarno Int’l Film Festival
WINNER – Best Film – BAFICI
WINNER – Best Director – BAFICI
WINNER – Best New Director – San Francisco Int’l Film Festival
WINNER – Besat Screenplay – Jerusalem Int’l Film Festival
WINNER – Jury Award – Philadelphia Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION – New York Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Vancouver Int’l Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Stockholm Int’l Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Hong Kong Int’l Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION – CPH PIX
OFFICIAL SELECTION – New York Jewish Film Festival —

Mr. Lapid, making an electrifying feature directing debut, traces the line between the group and the individual in a story that can be read as a commentary on the world as much as on Israel. — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

Though you don t know it at first, Policeman is divided into sections, and the most impressive is the initial one, a riveting portrait of Yaron, the Policeman of the title, played with unswerving conviction by Yiftach Klein, memorable as the charismatic male lead in FILL THE VOID. — Kenneth Turan, The LA Times