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A borrowed identity = ʻAravim roḳdim = Ạl'rb ạlrạqṣwn / Strand Releasing and The Match Factory present ; a UCM, Riva Film, Heimatfilm, Mact Productions, & Alma Film production ; producers, Chilik Michaeli, Michael Eckelt, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Avraham Pirchi, Tami Leon, Bettina Brokemper ; screenplay by Sayed Kashua ; directed by Eran Riklis.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 3503-2 | Strand ReleasingLanguage: Hebrew, Arabic Original language: Hebrew, Arabic Subtitle language: English Publisher: [Culver City, CA] : Strand Releasing, LLC, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 videodisc (104 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Other title:
  • Parallel title: ʻAravim roḳdim
  • Also known as : Dancing Arabs
  • Parallel title: Ạl'rb ạlrạqṣwn
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Qashu, Sayed, 1975- ʻArvim roḳdim. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Music, Yonathan Riklis ; editor, Richard Marizy ; director of photography, Michael Wiesweg.
Cast: Tawfeek Barhom, Yael Abecassis, Michael Moshonov, Ali Suliman, Danielle Kitzis, Marlene Bajali, Laetitia Eido, Razi Gabareen.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. After falling in love with Naomi, 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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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Statement of responsibility from English credits. Credits also in Hebrew and Arabic.

DVD.

Hebrew and Arabic dialogue ; English subtitles.

Not rated.

Tawfeek Barhom, Yael Abecassis, Michael Moshonov, Ali Suliman, Danielle Kitzis, Marlene Bajali, Laetitia Eido, Razi Gabareen.

Music, Yonathan Riklis ; editor, Richard Marizy ; director of photography, Michael Wiesweg.

Based on the International bestseller "Dancing Arabs" by Sayed Kashua.

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. After falling in love with Naomi, 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.

Special features: Original theatrical trailer ; other Strand trailers.

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