After “The Syrian Bride” and “The Lemon Tree”, Israeli director Eran Riklis’ latest film, “Dancing Arabs”, opened in France on February 11th. The film (released in France as “Mon Fils”) is based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Sayed Kashua, an Arab Israeli writer/journalist. It’s about identity and the complex relationship between Israeli’s and Arabs.
“Iyad (Tawfeek Barhom) grows up in an Arab town in Israel. At 16, he goes to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. He is the first and only Arab to be admitted. Gradually he is accepted by his peers but has only one true friend, Yonatan (Michael Moshonov), a boy with muscular dystrophy. Iyad becomes close to Yonatan’s family, bringing courage and strength to his mother Edna (Yael Abecassis). He soon becomes the family’s second son.”
Sources: parismatch.com et allocine.fr
