brutalising effect of decades as an occupier is visible, if not spelled out, in Walk on Water, whose protagonist has learned to kill without feeling. Besides, the shift in focus has freed Israelis to tell some of the country's other stories. What these films make clear is that there's no shortage: a young society born in fraught circumstances, with a population from every corner of the world, has thrown up enough tension, dilemmas and conflict to keep dramatists in business for years. Whatever effect these tales might have on the domestic audience, they can certainly win over the outsider. Live and Become has villains, but also people who offer our lonely hero kindness and understanding. What it, and all these films, show is a society not of devils or saints but of human beings. Recognition of that is all the saner advocates of Israel have ever wanted. Most popular on the Guardian Today in pictures After advising tourists against travel to the cities of Jammu and Srinagar for nearly 20 years, the Foreign Office has lifted its guidelines after a fall in violence. So, Dal Lake and part of the Valley of Kashmir, one of India's most beautiful regions, are once again open to visitors