Director: Eran Riklis
Screnplay: Sayed Kashua,
adapted from his novels Dancing Arabs and The Second Person
Cinematographer: Michael Wiesweg
Editing: Richard Marizy
Setting: Yoel Herzberg
Sound: Rolf Manzei, Gil Toren, Hervé Buirette
Music: Yonathan Riklis
Cast: Tawfeek Barhom, Yaël Abecassis, Michael Moshonov, Ali Suliman, Danielle Kitziz, Marlene Bajali, Laëtitia Eïdo, Razi Gabareen, Norman Issa
Production: UCM, Riva Film, Heimatfilm, MACT Productions, Alma Film productions
Distribution:
Pyramide Distribution
5 rue du Chevalier de Saint George
75008 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1 42 96 01 01
Fax: 0033 1 40 20 02 21
Mail: [email protected]
www.pyramidefilms.com
Year: 2014
DCP, Color, 104 min, OV hebrew, Arabian, German with French subtitles
Selected and awarded in several worldwide film festivals
Iyad has grown up in an Arab city in Israel. At the age of sixteen he enters a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. He is the very first Arab, and the only one, to be admitted there. He gradually gets accepted by his comrades but has only one true friend: Yonathan, a boy affected by a hereditary disease. Iyad gets closer to Yonathan’s family and brings support to Edna, his friend’s mother who becomes more courageous. He is soon considered as the second son in the family…
