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My First War

83 Minutes, 2008
Genre:
Documentary

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Directed by: Yariv Mozer
Production:Yariv Mozer, Yael Perlov
Production Company:Mozer Films
Language: Hebrew
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In July 2006, after the Second Lebanon War had broken out, director Yariv Mozer was conscripted and sent to the frontlines. In what the film’s voiceover narration describes as a ‘spur of the moment decision,’ Mozer grabbed his camera and took it with him. He then proceeded to document the war, through the first-person POV of a reservist officer desperately trying to find rhyme and reason amidst all the chaos and sheer absurdity of the fighting. As the camera shakes in his trembling hands, viewers feel as though they are right there with him – in the battlefield. Mozer’s voiceover narration offers insight into the innermost thoughts of an IDF officer during a war which, today is mostly remembered for its many strategic and administrative failures, and the overall sense of frustration and helplessness it left the vast majority of Israelis with.
Mozer checks in with his protagonists at various stages of the war, and revisits them after it has ended, trying to make sense of the impact it has had on them and himself. The protagonists, who had experienced war’s darkest underbelly, were now back in civilian life and in fact, the film even ends on an optimistic note with one of the men walking down the aisle. However, this restored ‘normality’ is, from now on, forever tinged with the permanent imprint of war.
The film was shown at countless international festivals and earned a Special Mention at the Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival.

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