Another fiction trilogy deals with important historical events in Israel : '' Kippur '' , 2000 ; '' Eden '' , 2001 ; '' Kedma '' , 2002 . '' Kippur '' ( 2000 ) was Israel 's first large-scale cinematic depiction of the considerably difficult and traumatic Yom Kippur War of 1973 . Critics praised its absence of sensationalism and its unsentimental depiction of war . Charles Tesson wrote in '' Les Cahiers du Cinéma '' : " Throughout the film , the viewer remains locked in this absurd question : are we in the war or is that happening somewhere else , off-screen , or was it happening just before the camera got there ? We never know for certain and then we realise that this uncertainty is in fact the most profound truth of war , as cinema has hardly ever shown it , with a force and an intensity that takes your breath away . … The principle for filming warfare in Kippur is simple , limpid . Favouring real time spaces , … making the camera an extra person walking with the soldiers , running behind the others to get on the helicopter before it takes off . The viewer is inside the war while remaining outside the group , accompanying them . Never does the film encourage in the viewer that fantasy of being one of them . " ( Charles Tesson , Les Cahiers du Cinéma , n ° 549 , September 2000 ) . '' Kippur '' was entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival starring Liron Levo , Tomer Russo , Uri Klauzner , Yoram Hattab and Juliano Mer-Khamis . '' Eden '' competed in the Venice Biennale 2001 . '' Kedma '' was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival . Its leading actors are Andrei Kashkar and Helena Yaralova . His film '' Alila '' ( 2003 ) participated in Venice Film Festival 2003 , starring Yael Abecassis , Hanna Laszlo , Ronit Elkabetz , Liron Levo , Tomer Russo , Lupo Berkowitch , Amos Lavi , Yosef Carmon
2000 Cannes Film Festival
2000 Cannes Film Festival
Amos Gitai