Sun Intusap

An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a decorated police officer yet he barely earns a living. His new assignment to deport African migrant workers teaches him that foreigners aren’t the only ones with no future in his country. Other plotlines intertwine with Meir’s story: an Israeli-Filipino boy fighting for recognition; a taxi driver whose children are migrating to a distant country; and a veteran migrant worker who’s forced to decide whether to leave or to hide until trouble passes.

For the coming year when Shmulik must let his land lie fallow, he decides to disregard the Rabbinate law and sells his land to Changrong, his most senior Thai worker. Certain that he has made the greatest play of his life, Shmulik awakens the following day only to discover his once calm reality shattered. Shocked, he will do anything to return it to the way it was.