Tawfeek Barhom
Eyad
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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.
- $281,540
- Tawfeek Barhom
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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- Drama
- Eran Riklis
- 2014-11-27
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Jun 26, 2015 · Dancing Arabs. Rent Dancing Arabs on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV, or buy it on Prime Video, Apple TV. A young Arab in Israel struggles to find his place and an 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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- Eran Riklis
Jun 20, 2015 · A Borrowed Identity continues the trend, but there’s a key difference in director Eran Riklis’s film, which charts the plight of Eyad (Tawfeek Barhom), a young Palestinian-Isreali who gets accepted into a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem, only to find he’s not welcome because of his origins. Riklis tempers moments of youthful ...
Jul 23, 2015 · “A Borrowed Identity” establishes its tone with a scene of a young Palestinian boy rising in front of his class to announce, proudly, that his father is a terrorist. Unfolding against the...
