BEAUFORT, winner best director Berlin Film Festival 2007, tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that drops bombs from the skies while terrified young soldiers must find a way to carry out their mission until their very last minutes on that mountaintop. As LIRAZ lays the explosives which would destroy that very same structure that his friends had died defending, he witnesses the collapse of all he's been taught as an officer, and his soldier's mental and physical.

The Winnipeg Chapter of the CFHU is sponsoring the Panel Discussion immediately following the movie. Below is a short bio. of the two panelists.

Ret. Col. (IDF) Yoram Hamizrachi-East was born and raised in Jerusalem. He served in the IDF as a Paratrooper, and later as a Reserve Officer in the battle to free Jerusalem. Hamizrachi-East became the first Commander of the IDF South Lebanese Liaison Unit. In the late 70s, he became the first IDF officer to command the now-defunct South Lebanon Security Belt (Mount Hermon to the Mediterranean). While in the IDF, he has served in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, and the Kurdistan mountains.

Ret. Lt. Col. Jonathan D. Halevi is the Dir of Research & Policy Planning for the Orient Research Group Ltd and as a Senior Researcher of the Middle East and Radical Islam at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He also consults for the Terror Victims Litigation Project (Americans affected by terrorist acts in the Middle East). Halevi was formerly a Career Intelligence Officer, specializing in Palestinian Affairs, and a Senior Advisor for Policy Planning in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.