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The film was considered a flop in Israel, with only 48,000 views, despite an $11 million budget. It tells the story of Eyad, an Israeli-Palestinian teenager from Tira who moves to Jerusalem to attend an elite Jewish high school , where he meets Naomi, a Jewish student, and falls in love with her.
Jun 26, 2015 · The complex interrelated identities of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis—two peoples divided by a shared culture, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde ’s reputed quip—is movingly explored in “A Borrowed Identity,” a sharply mounted drama about a young Arab who finds reasons to “pass” as Jewish.
Nov 27, 2014 · A Borrowed Identity: Directed by Eran Riklis. With Tawfeek Barhom, Razi Gabareen, Yaël Abecassis, Michael Moshonov. A Palestinian-Israeli boy named Eyad is sent to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem, where he struggles with issues of language, culture, and identity.
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Jun 26, 2015 · Eran Riklis’s film charts the struggles of an Arab-Israeli teenager making his way in an elite boarding school in Jerusalem.
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Jun 26, 2015 · Dancing Arabs. Rent Dancing Arabs on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. A young Arab in Israel struggles to find his place and an identity.
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'A Borrowed Identity', in a Hegelian trope, in a rude dialectic informs us that the only way Eyad, a gifted Arab Israeli, can find complete fulfillment in Israel is to become a Jew by assuming the identity of Jonathan, his doppelganger, who dies after a long bout of muscular dystrophy, with the complicity of the deceased Israeli's mother.
Jul 23, 2015 · By Stephanie Merry. July 23, 2015 at 10:03 a.m. EDT. Eyad (Tawfeek Barhom) forms a unique bond with Edna (Yael Abecassis), his friend’s mother, in “A Borrowed Identity.” (EitanRiklis/Strand...
