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Knock On The Door
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Late night, September 1997, a force of the commando marches into a deadly ambush in Lebanon. 11 of them are killed, the body of one remains behind – my brother, Itamar. 25 years after Itamar was killed, his sister, director Aya Elia, goes back to observe the bereavement rituals in Israel. “Knock on the Door” is a film about how we as a society remember, and about how we lose. Through the film we meet the informers: volunteers who go through a professional training process that prepares them to deliver the terrible news to the families of fallen soldiers, the end point of which is a knock on those families’ doors. The process exposed through the film, brings to the surface the director’s own coming of age journey, of a childhood left behind. The two faces of loss, the personal and the public, present an original portrait of bereavement.
Director: Ohad Milstein, Aya Elia
Producer: Ohad Milstein
Cinematographer: Ohad Milstein
Editor: Ohad Milstein
Soundtrack Editor: Shahaf Vagshal
Original Soundtrack: Yishai Adar
Colourist / Online Editor: Yoav Paz, Lilach Shamis
Cast: Emanuel Mor
Script: Ohad Milstein, Aya Elia
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: דפיקה בדלת
Category: Israeli Society / Women
Tag Words: 1997 Ambush army service bereavement Commando Informers. IDF Lebanon reserve duty volunteer
Late night, September 1997, a force of the commando marches into a deadly ambush in Lebanon. 11 of them are killed, the body of one remains behind – my brother, Itamar. 25 years after Itamar was killed, his sister, director Aya Elia, goes back to observe the bereavement rituals in Israel. “Knock on the Door” is a film about how we as a society remember, and about how we lose. Through the film we meet the informers: volunteers who go through a professional training process that prepares them to deliver the terrible news to the families of fallen soldiers, the end point of which is a knock on those families’ doors. The process exposed through the film, brings to the surface the director’s own coming of age journey, of a childhood left behind. The two faces of loss, the personal and the public, present an original portrait of bereavement.
![Knock on the Door](https://nfct.org.il/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/דפיקה-בדלת-WEB-604x340.jpg)
Director: Ohad Milstein, Aya Elia
Producer: Ohad Milstein
Cinematographer: Ohad Milstein
Editor: Ohad Milstein
Soundtrack Editor: Shahaf Vagshal
Original Soundtrack: Yishai Adar
Colourist / Online Editor: Yoav Paz, Lilach Shamis
Cast: Emanuel Mor
Script: Ohad Milstein, Aya Elia
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: דפיקה בדלת
Category: Israeli Society / Women
Tag Words: 1997 Ambush army service bereavement Commando Informers. IDF Lebanon reserve duty volunteer