ANSAR

54’ | English Version | 4K

In 1982, with the onset of the First Lebanon War, Israel found itself forced to deal with thousands of POWs. To cope with the challenge, it hastily surrounds the first and last POW camp it established, on Lebanese soil.

But the story the film ANSAR tells is bigger, not only from the Israeli entanglement in Lebanon but echoes to the past and the present through dramatic, never-before-revealed testimonies by Israeli ex-soldiers and Palestinian ex-detainees and previously unreleased archival video and stills.

What was the al-Ansar camp? What happened there? How is it possible that nearly 40 years after the end of the First Lebanon war, the name "al-Ansar" is still kept secret by many war veterans -- and that the few who dare to speak out are immediately silenced by their comrades?

To this day, the IDF and the Israeli public refrain from looking directly at what happened there or investigating the devastating, long-term impact on the Israeli soldiers and their Arab captives - adults and children, terrorists as well as innocent civilians.

Although Israel and Lebanon are still enemies, we were able to reveal the 40-year-old secret.

Produced by: Kastina Communications LTD.
World excluding Israel and educational market