Policeman

Streaming video - 2011

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...Director Nadav Lapid made several short films during his studies in the Sam Spiegel Film School, which were screened in Cannes, Berlin and Locarno. His graduate film, Emile’s Girlfriend (50 min) was distributed in France. He participated in the Festival de Cannes Residence, where he wrote the script for Policeman. The project won the pitching price of the Jerusalem Film Festival and of the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 2008. Keep On Dancing, a collection of novels he wrote, was published in Israel and France. Lapid studied philosophy and history and worked as a sports and culture journalist, a television critic and documentary cinematographer. more