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Flipping Out
Tuesday, April 28, 8:40 PM at SIFF Cinema at the Uptown
Director(s): Yoav Shamir
Country: Israel
Year: 2007
Length: 84 MINUTES
Format: Beta SP | Documentary
Language: Hebrew w/subtitles
Every year, the cloud forests of India's Himalayan foothills provide the ideal escape for some 30,000 young Israelis just released from mandatory military service. With a pocketful of discharge money and a socially sanctioned "time-out" from concerns and conflicts back home, 90 percent of these travelers will take drugs, and some 2,000 will end up needing psychiatric care for what has become known, even in Hebrew, as "flipping out." Talented verite filmmaker Yoav Shamir hung out with those decompressing from the impossible stresses of military service in Israel. A powerful but unsettling picture of collective numbing-out and free-fall.
Plays with: In Search of Bene Israel.
Topics: Military Service, Isreal, Drugs, Jews in India
Mature Content
PRINT SOURCE: IsraeliFilms
WEBSITE: www.israelifilms.co.il
EMAIL: info@israelifilms.co.il
PHONE: 972-3-681-2121
CONTACT:
Dov Gil-Har, Sales Efrat Cohen-Magen, SalesFILMS: Sweet Mud (Adama Meshuga'at), Champagne Spy (Meragel Ha-Shampaniya), Flipping Out, Sharon, Woman From the Bubble, Ladino: 500 Years Young, My Lovely Sister | Achoti Hayaffa
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