The Future

Eitan Kalish is a fictitious character of a student documentary film. A small -time friendly ecstasy deal he sets up unexpectedly goes to distance, when the Israeli Defense Forces are re-occupying Palestinian land, causing 1000 pills to fall into his lap. He sets up the ultimate poetic statement: selling the pills in the coming "Anti Occupation Rave" in Tel Aviv.

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.

The first ever Israeli documentary film to feature an Arab protagonist is revisited 50 years later by top graduates of the Sam Spiegel Film School.