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"Beaufort"
2007
Directed by Joseph Cedar

Nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2008, this Israeli war movie tells the jarring tale of an Israeli Defense Force unit isolated in Southern Lebanon at the mountaintop Beaufort castle. The film begins in 2000, eighteen years after Israeli forces expelled Palestinians from the fortress. Having endured nearly endless attacks, the men receive orders to evacuate and destroy the outpost, leaving the commander (Oshri Cohen) and his men to contemplate the years of bloodshed that stain a now pointless mission. "A haunting antiwar movie" (Isabel Kershner, The New York Times). Hebrew with optional English subtitles.  126 minutes.