Campfire

The year is 1981. Rachel lost her husband a year earlier. She wants to give her life a direction again. To do it she tries to join the founding group of a new settlement to be built in the West Bank. The group is religiously based and acceptance goes through a committee. Rachel’s two teenage daughters are against the idea. In the middle of this her younger daughter is sexually assaulted by boys from her youth movement. What happens makes both the family and the attitude of the community visible. The film tells one woman’s effort to be accepted on that ground. It won five Israeli Academy Awards. Joseph Cedar directed the ninety six minute Israeli film of 2004.