Manpower

An intelligent social issues drama Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting exile and emigration home and family Meir Cohen is a decorated police officer yet he barely earns a living His new assignment to deport African migrant workers teaches him that foreigners arent the only ones with no future in his country Other plotlines intertwine with Meirs story an IsraeliFilipino boy fighting for recognition a taxi driver whose children are migrating to a distant country and a veteran migrant worker whos forced to decide whether to leave or to hide until trouble passes