Anger consumes a dozen combat vets long after their return from the front. The warriors in Of Men and War have come home to the United States, but their minds are stuck out on the battlefield. Like figures from a Greek tragedy, all have traumatic memories that haunt them to this day. Ghosts and echoes of the war fill their lives. Threats seem to spring out from everywhere. Wives, children, and parents bear the burden of their shattered spirits.

At the Pathway Home, a first-of-its-kind PTSD therapy center, the film's protagonists resolve themselves to end the ongoing destruction. Their therapist, a Vietnam War vet himself, helps the young men forge a meaning from their trauma. Over years of therapy, Of Men and War explores their exhausting paths to recovery, as they attempt to make peace with themselves, their past and their families.

Prize and selections

Prize Best feature documentary, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014

• Official selection, Festival de Cannes 2014

• Selected for the Best European documentary, EFA European Film Awards 2014

Festivals

• Festival de Cannes 2014

• IDFA 2014

• DocPoint 2015

• Göteborg FF 2015

• Zagrebdox 2015

• MoMA Documentary Fortnight 2015

• True/False 2015

• Full Frame 2015

• COLCOA 2015

• Visions du Réel 2015

• San Fransisco IFF 2015

• DOXA 2015

• Istanbul FF

• DocumentaMadrid

• DOK.fest Münich 2015

• Planet Doc

• Sydney FF

• Moscou FF

• Open City Docs Fest

• Jerusalem FF

• Little Rock FF

• Riviera Maya FF

Press kit (French - PDF)

Written press & web

Ciclic - "Of Men and War" de Laurent Bécue-Renard (France - French) : https://ciclic.fr/actualites/men-and-war-de-laurent-becue-renard

Les yeux doc - Of Men and War (France - French) : https://www.lesyeuxdoc.fr/film/176/of-men-and-war

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