Contemporary Israeli Documentary Films

In June 2002, a bus on its way to Tiberius from Tel Aviv, was bombed. 17 people were killed, 16 were identified. No. 17 wasn’t. He was buried a few weeks later – anonymous. The police stopped searching, believing that he must have been a foreign worker. This is where the filmmakers step in, documenting in real time over a period of six months the search for the identity of a man no one claimed missing. The film takes the form of a detective investigation, but also pursues the stories of several people who were affected directly or indirectly, by this bombing, creating a tragic-comic portrait of a society living under the shadow of death.