DANCING ARABS aka A BORROWED IDENTITY
1987: The first intifada. 1991: The Gulf War. Two key events in the Middle East, two decisive stations in the life of young Eyad who grew up in a small Arabic town in the middle of Israel, surrounded by a loving family that is a little crazy and quite humorous. The father is a communist and a terrorist, the mother as tender as she is strict, a charming grandmother full of mysteries who knows everything about everyone, a mysterious puzzle that Eyad solves, friends from the city and guests from Tel Aviv, anda bove all a story about the search for identity which changes dramatically when Eyad experiences love and compassion in an elite boarding school in Jerusalem and finds out who he really is. There, he changes his identity to start a new life – he is no longer an Arab, no longer a Dancing Arab.
an Eran Riklis film
Director Eran Riklis
Producers Chilik Michaeli Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre Avraham Pirchi Michael Eckelt Tami Leon Bettina Brokemper
Associate Producer Moshe Edery Leon Edery Simon Ofenloch
Cinematographer Michael Wiesweg
Editor Richard Marizy
Music Yonatan Riklis
Production Designer Yoel Herzberg
Casting Yael Aviv
Starring Tawfeek Barhom Yael Abecassis Michael Moshonov Ali Suliman
