Borrowed Identity

Impressive acting...enhances this thoughtful drama, directed with a sure hand by Mr. Riklis, a film veteran.
-- Andy Webster, New York Times

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A Borrowed Identity

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, Lebanon), a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of the home Jonathan shares with his mother, Edna (Yael Abecassis, Kadosh, Alila, To Live and Become). 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.
Not Rated
Genre
Drama
Runtime
105
Language
Arabic, Hebrew
Director
Eran Riklis
Cast
Tawfeek Barhom, Michael Moshonov
FEATURED REVIEW
Simon Houpt, Globe and Mail

If truth is the first casualty of war, nuance runs a close second, which is why it was all the more distressing when the Jerusalem Film Festival cancelled its world premiere of the satisfying, novelistic new drama from award-winning director Eran Riklis (The Syrian Bride) as Hamas and Israel ...

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