A Borrowed Identity
Release Date: June 26, 2015 (limited)
Studio: Strand Releasing
Director: Eran Riklis
MPAA Rating: N/A
Screenwriter: Sayed Kashua
Genre: Drama
Starring: Tawfeek Barhom, Ali Suliman, Yael Abecassis
Plot Summary: A coming-of-age drama set in the 1980s about an Arab teenager trying to find his place in Israeli society. Written and adapted from two autobiographical novels by renowned Arab-Israeli author and journalist Sayed Kashua. Gifted Eyad (Tawfeek Barhom), a Palestinian Israeli boy, is given the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. As he desperately tries to fit in with his Jewish schoolmates and within Israeli society, Eyad develops a friendship with another outsider, Jonathan (Michael Moshonov) a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of the home Jonathan shares with his mother, Edna (Yael Abecassis). After falling in love with Naomi (Daniel Kitsis), a Jewish girl, he leaves school when their relationship is uncovered, and he discovers that he will have to sacrifice his identity in order to be accepted. Faced with a choice, Eyad will have to make a decision that will change his life forever.
Release Date: June 26, 2015 (limited)
Studio: Strand Releasing
Director: Eran Riklis
MPAA Rating: N/A
Screenwriter: Sayed Kashua
Genre: Drama
Starring: Tawfeek Barhom, Ali Suliman, Yael Abecassis
Plot Summary: A coming-of-age drama set in the 1980s about an Arab teenager trying to find his place in Israeli society. Written and adapted from two autobiographical novels by renowned Arab-Israeli author and journalist Sayed Kashua. Gifted Eyad (Tawfeek Barhom), a Palestinian Israeli boy, is given the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. As he desperately tries to fit in with his Jewish schoolmates and within Israeli society, Eyad develops a friendship with another outsider, Jonathan (Michael Moshonov) a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of the home Jonathan shares with his mother, Edna (Yael Abecassis). After falling in love with Naomi (Daniel Kitsis), a Jewish girl, he leaves school when their relationship is uncovered, and he discovers that he will have to sacrifice his identity in order to be accepted. Faced with a choice, Eyad will have to make a decision that will change his life forever.
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