Dikla Zeidler

Explores what it's like to come of age in a world plagued by systemic institutional failure. Rohan (23), a victim of the Dutch childcare benefit scandal, shows us what happens when the system turns against you. As a whistleblower, Ruben (25) pushes against the boundaries of the system. Sam (27) takes it even further and finds herself on trial for civil disobedience. All three become entangled in the system and its institutions in their search to change things for the better. Underscored by protest music, their individual actions combine in one urgent plea: Do better.

In this documentary the viewer meets eighteen-year-old Chamoetal Zeidler, who starts her two years of mandatory military service in the Spokesperson’s Unit of the Israeli Army (IDF). With an Israeli father and a Dutch mother, growing up in Israel and in the Netherlands, going to the army wasn’t the obvious choice for Chamoetal. In the course of the film we learn how Chamoetal experiences her time in the army and how she transforms from a teenager into a grown-up soldier, who must justify all IDF actions.

Explores what it's like to come of age in a world plagued by systemic institutional failure. Rohan (23), a victim of the Dutch childcare benefit scandal, shows us what happens when the system turns against you. As a whistleblower, Ruben (25) pushes against the boundaries of the system. Sam (27) takes it even further and finds herself on trial for civil disobedience. All three become entangled in the system and its institutions in their search to change things for the better. Underscored by protest music, their individual actions combine in one urgent plea: Do better.

In this documentary the viewer meets eighteen-year-old Chamoetal Zeidler, who starts her two years of mandatory military service in the Spokesperson’s Unit of the Israeli Army (IDF). With an Israeli father and a Dutch mother, growing up in Israel and in the Netherlands, going to the army wasn’t the obvious choice for Chamoetal. In the course of the film we learn how Chamoetal experiences her time in the army and how she transforms from a teenager into a grown-up soldier, who must justify all IDF actions.