Last year, in 2008,
"Beaufort," an Israeli film describing events at an army post in the run-up to Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
This year, 2009,
"Waltz with Bashir" will be one of the five finalists competing for the Best Foreign Language Film award at the Oscars on February 22, the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced yesterday.
And this coming year, 2010, what is the theme of the Israeli film to be submitted to the Oscar Committee?
You guessed it: Lebanon.
"Lebanon".is a film whose story about a tank that gets stuck in June 1982 in a village while a Syrian commando force closes in. Shmulik Maoz is the director.
Three years in a row, the cultural elite of Israel's cinema industry seems to be fixated on smacking Israel around on one of the most prestigious film stages of the world: Hollywood.
Two years in a row, Israel lost.
Does anyone think a third film on the subject of Lebanon will be nominated - forget about winning?
Why are they doing this?
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