What is Shooting like to watch?

Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Shooting as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.

Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Shooting as mild.

Which films are like Shooting?

Films with a similar feel include The Act of Killing, Waltz with Bashir, Five Broken Cameras, and Standard Operating Procedure.

Name: Shooting
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-05-25
Duration: 1 h 18 min
Rating: 8

202578 min★ 8.0

A rigorous Israeli documentary trilogy exposes how staging war for the camera reproduces militarism, displacement, and moral injury.

May contain story progression spoilers

The documentary follows a war recreated for a film and an action scene staged through planted weapons, making reenactment its central ethical problem.
The trilogy connects weapons, action filmmaking, and militarism's grip on Israeli society.
The props and weapons specialist's PTSD and moral trauma become a key human dimension of the filmmaking process.
By examining staged scenes and their consequences, the film questions how cinema constructs and legitimizes images of conflict.

The Act of Killing
Both interrogate the ethics of cinematic reenactment, militarized memory, and complicity in representing violence.
Waltz with Bashir
Both examine Israeli militarism, trauma, memory, and the unstable boundary between lived conflict and constructed images.
Five Broken Cameras
Both use documentary filmmaking to confront political violence, contested testimony, and the consequences of occupation.
Standard Operating Procedure
Both scrutinize war imagery, institutional violence, and the moral limits of documentary representation.

What is Shooting about?: A rigorous Israeli documentary trilogy exposes how staging war for the camera reproduces militarism, displacement, and moral injury.
What is Shooting like to watch?: Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Shooting as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
Is Shooting violent?: Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Shooting as mild.
Which films are like Shooting?: Films with a similar feel include The Act of Killing, Waltz with Bashir, Five Broken Cameras, and Standard Operating Procedure.
How long is Shooting?: Shooting runs 78 minutes.