Nadav Aronowicz

Israel, 2016. During The Uprising of Knives, Noa’s husband miraculously prevents a knife attack, killing the stabber, a Palestinian woman. Soon, Noa starts noticing cracks in the official story of the attack, a discovery that thrusts her into a severe moral crisis.

Army recruitment day, a defining moment in Israeli-Jewish identity. Turning our gaze toward this controversial rite, we muse on life in a country that lives by the sword, while raising questions about the limits of parenthood.

Past and present collide as Genadiy leads his family and fellow reenactors on a journey back to the Middle Ages, in an attempt to relive the Crusaders' final battle in the Holy Land.