Bikur Ha-Tizmoret (Eran Kolirin, 2007)

The Band's Visit has an Egyptian's policemen's band lost in Israel while looking for the venue of their performance to open an Arabic cultural centre, tramping along like the hapless bunch from Leningrad Cowboys Go America and being taken in overnight by quizzical locals in a town in the middle of nowhere. Gradually, the two sides find common ground, but this isn't a sermon on Arab-Jewish relations, instead, the interest is just on what makes individuals tick, and it's all the better for it. There are some wryly amusing vignettes along the way, the scenes in the roller-skating rink a particular highlight amongst these, and a basic underlying decency and sweetness that make a small story carry more political weight than overt polemicising ever could.

7/10