Omar (2014)

Three Palestinian friends decide to run a resistance mission (one plans, one drives, one shoots an occupying Israeli officer). We follow Omar, the driver, as he’s caught, imprisoned, tortured, and then released on the condition that he deliver the shooter to them. Omar is still a loyal resister and only wants to get out to see his love Nadia and to warn his friends about what the Israelis know or at least of what they think they know.

There’s a lot going on in this movie and it threatens to devolve into a simple jealousy/revenge plot, but winds up being so much better than that. I was truly moved and surprised -- so much so that I actually did a little research online afterward to make sure that the meaning I'd derived was the meaning intended.

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