Little Heroes G

Starring: Alon Lisi, Anastasia Safonov, Miki Kam

Is a short, pleasant, charming film about a group of children who attend day camp. Two teenagers go riding in a 4 x 4 pickup truck, discover their brakes are out and crash into a pond, from whence they are unable to escape. A telepathic young girl on a bus believes she hears their cries for help. After returning home, she decides to walk back many miles and rescue them. She takes her large, simple-minded brother and a young wrestler (living in the shadow of his dead soldier father) on a compelling adventure that takes them through a military firing range, by a mystical herd of ostriches and past a group of kids trying to keep outsiders off their kibbutz—where they pick up a nerdy little fellow traveler who aids their efforts by stealing a tractor from workmen in an orchard. The characters are distinctive and interesting and the simple story holds our interest.