Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Yoav Shamir | 60 minutes

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Flipping out

Yoav Shamir - 2008 docu 60 min

Language: Hebrew with English subtitles. Documentary by Yoav Shamir about
the extreme drug use of Israeli soldiers in India. Military service in
Israel is compulsive for all able-bodied Jewish men and women. Once their
years of service are up they are granted a bonus which many use to travel
to India to wind down and recover from their experiences. About 90 per cent
of them will use drugs during their travels and every year about two
thousand of them will require professional help to recover from this drug
use. The extreme psychotic break these people experience is commonly
referred to as "flipping out". Shamir spends two years with his camera
filming this phenomenon and makes the link between the excessive drug use
and the soldiers' experiences in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Biography. Yoav Shamir is an Israeli documentary filmmaker born in Tel Aviv
in 1970. He graduated from Tel Aviv University with a BA in History and
philosophy. He is most noted for the films Checkpoint and Defamation.
Shamir's films have received awards from various independent film festivals
including Best Feature Documentary at the International Documentary Film
Festival Amsterdam, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary
Festival, the Grand Prize at the Sundance film festival and the Golden Gate
Award for Documentary Feature at the San Francisco International Film
Festival.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3K71Jb5INs

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