For more than 20 years, the journalist Gideon Levy brought horror stories from the occupied territories to Israeli readers. A play writer reads his article and writes a play, a theater director adapts it to the stage, actors play in it to the audience, which are now able to encounter on stage the not so distant horrible reality. A mediated encounter. And now, accessible for you, a film... 'Keywords' exists in times where info is a product. It casts doubt on the capability of Media and Arts to fulfill the role they once filled: actual contact between people.
BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that drops bombs from the skies while terrified young soldiers must find a way to carry out their mission until their very last minutes on that mountaintop.
