Foxtrot

Foxtrot unfolds in three movements. In the first, Michael and Dafna are informed by army officers that their son has been killed on duty, and the film stays inside the disorienting hours of shock and denial that follow. The second follows the son at a remote, absurd checkpoint. The third returns to the parents and to a cruel reversal that recasts everything that came before.

Structured like the dance that gives it its title, the film traces how grief moves a person out and returns them to where they began. It examines shock, the numb refusal of loss, guilt, and the way private mourning is caught inside larger machineries of nation and duty. It won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Venice Film Festival.