Manpower(2014)

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.

Genre: Drama

Director: Noam Kaplan

Actors: Samuel Calderon, Gal Friedman, Liat Goren, Avigail Harari, Odel Hayon, Yossi Marshek, Sophia Ostrisky, Anton 'Klin' Ostrovsky, Hila Saada, Netta Shpigelman

Release date: 2014-02-13

Country of origin: France, Israel

Length: 1h 28m

Ratings:

• 6.8/10