A borrowed identity / Strand Releasing and the Match Factory present ; a UCM, Riva Film, Heimatfilm, Mact Productions, Alma Film production ; in co-production with ZDF-ARTE-New Lineo Cinema ; a film by Eran Riklis ; director, Eran Riklis ; screenplay by Sayed Kashua ; producers, Chilik Michaeli [and 5 others].
Statement of responsibility from English credits. Credits also in Hebrew and Arabic. Based on the international bestseller "Dancing Arabs" by Sayed Kashua. DVD release of the 2014 motion picture. Bonus features: Original theatrical trailer ; other Strand trailers. Tawfeek Barhom, Yael Abecassis, Michael Moshonov, Ali Suliman, Danielle Kitzis.
Summary:
Gifted Eyad, 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, a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of the home Jonathan shares with his mother, Edna.
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