section Documentary Film Competition

Closed Circuit

  • Tal Inbar
  • IL
  • 2022
  • 54 min

They are the "angels of death" - officers of the Israel Defense Forces who have to deliver the news of death to the families of killed soldiers. A deeply thoughtful film about a universal theme.

They wore suits and sat, just like the other guests, at Café Brenner in Tel Aviv's popular Sarona market. It was June 8th 2016. At which point, out of nowhere, two 21-year-old Palestinian assassins shot indiscriminately at the café’s guests with machine guns. Panic broke out. Four people died and many more were injured. The shock sat deep. Six years later, filmmaker Tal Inbar speaks to survivors both Jewish and Arab. Through the authentic images of the surveillance cameras, she places the shocking and brutal events within the context of these memories. A young woman today still mourns her father, one of the victims. An Arab father was able to save his son; in the years that followed however his family fell apart. As a viewer one has seldom observed the shocking brutality, one that erupts out of nowhere, of an assassination attempt from such close proximity as in these images and testimonies.

Text: Jörg Taszman
English: Peter Rickerby


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Credits

original title Closed Circuit

international title Closed Circuit

german title Closed Circuit

JFBB section Documentary Film Competition

  • director Tal Inbar

country/countries IL

year 2022

duration 54 min


Portrait of Tal Inbar

Tal Inbar