title: Close to Home (film)
text: Close to Home () is a 2005 Israeli drama film directed by Dalia Hager and Vidi Bilu, and starring Smadar Sayar and Naama Schedar. It is the first film about the experience of female soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces.
  
  Smadar (Sayar) and Mirit (Schendar), both 18 years old, are assigned to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together as part of their military service. Worlds apart in their personality, their initial frosty relationship becomes a friendship as they deal with their own emotional issues, the crushes and break-ups in their love lives, as well as the political realities of the city in which they live.
  
  The film premiered at the 2005 Jerusalem Film Festival. It also showed at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival where it was awarded a prize by the International Association of Art Film Houses.
  
  See also
   Women's cinema
  
  References
  
  External links
   
   UK distributor Soda Pictures
   Official UK Myspace
   Close to Home - Karov Labait
  
  2000s Hebrew-language films
  2005 films
  2005 drama films
  Films about the Israel Defense Forces
  Films set in Jerusalem
  Israeli drama films