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Land of the Little People

BRINK/KY BUILDING 1100 S. 6TH AVE

2016, ISREAL, 83 Min
Thriller, Adventure, Drama
Directed by Yaniv Berman
Cast: Ofer Hayoun, Maor Schwitzer, Alexandra Mataron

Another war has started in Israel. Most men are drafted quickly in service of their country. While all the grownups are busy being worried, four kids play at an old army base, now empty and unused. One day, the kids find two army deserters hiding in their secret playground. Being the sons and a daughter of military officers, the children know only one way to regain their territory with ruthlessness. The soldiers make a dire mistake and hold their ground. Soon enough, the fight begins. The two soldiers, who sought refuge from the military fighting, find themselves in another war, which turns to be very dangerous and bloody.

Land of the Little People is an ambitious project by Palestinian film producer Tony Copti and Israeli director Yaniv Berman. Political and uncompromising in its social statement, the story touches at the very core of the Israeli inner conflict. Children growing up in a militaristic society with an everlasting war raging in the background know they have to toughen themselves in order to be prepared for when they are called to serve. Now these children are covered with two soldiers blood as their own private war rages in the woods while a real war rages in the outside world.

A kick-in-the-gut, unrelenting condemnation of Israeli society seen through the prism of children whose sense of play centers on brutality. VARIETY

A gang of feral Israeli children teach themselves to kill in a chilling political fairy tale for adults. HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

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