Beyond the Mountains and Hills

A family gets entangled in the dark powers that shape life in today’s Israel. Although they mean well: father David can’t find his feet in consumer society after years in the army; mother Rina wants to introduce some beauty and culture to young people as a teacher of literature. Yet they overstep moral boundaries. David accidentally shoots a young Palestinian dead; his wife has an affair with a pupil. Their socially committed, activist daughter Ifat gets involved in illegal activities. And son Omri takes excessive revenge on a fellow pupil. 
This is the result of living in a society where you can only be culprit or victim, according to Eran Kolirin (The Band’s Visit, 2007) in this undercooled drama. He slowly builds up the tension with a classic, sober narrative style that is occasionally interrupted by almost poetic scenes, such as an evacuation exercise at school choreographed as a ballet scene.