A BORROWED IDENTITY
by Eran Riklis
synopsis
Eyad, who grew up in an Arab town in Israel, is given the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. The first and only Arab to be accepted there, he desperately tries to fit in with his Jewish schoolmates and Israeli society. Soon, Eyad develops a friendship with Jonathan, a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of his family. Being an outsider, Eyad wants to belong, even if he doesn’t exactly know to whom or to what. After falling in love with Naomi, a Jewish girl, he has to leave 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.
international title: | A Borrowed Identity |
original title: | Dancing Arabs |
country: | Germany, France, Israel |
sales agent: | The Match Factory |
year: | 2014 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Eran Riklis |
film run: | 105' |
release date: | FR 11/02/2015, NL 6/04/2015 |
screenplay: | Sayed Kashua |
cast: | Tawfeek Barhom, Ali Suliman, Yaël Abecassis, Marlene Bajali, Laëtitia Eïdo, Razi Gabareen, Norman Issa |
cinematography by: | Michael Wiesweg |
film editing: | Richard Marizy |
art director: | Yoel Herzberg |
costumes designer: | Hamada Atallah |
music: | Jonathan Riklis |
producer: | Bettina Brokemper, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Michael Eckelt, Chilik Michaeli |
production: | Konken Studios, MACT Productions, United Channel Movies |
distributor: | Pyramide Distribution, September Film Distribution Netherlands |