CMES Film Series
A Borrowed Identity with an introduction by Shiri Goren of Yale’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Thursday, October 1, 6:30 p.m.
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Directed by Eran Riklis (Israel, 2014). Based on two novels by Sayed Kashua, gifted Eyad, a Palestinian-Israeli boy, is given the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem.
As he desperately tries to fit in with his Jewish schoolmates and within Israeli society, Eyad develops a friendship with another outsider, Jonathan, a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of the home Jonathan shares with his mother. After falling in love with a Jewish girl, Eyad leaves school when their relationship is exposed, and discovers that he will have to sacrifice his identity in order to be accepted. Faced with a choice, Eyad must make a decision that will change his life forever.
Sponsored by The Council on Middle East Studies at the Macmillan Center, The Modern Hebrew Program, and Yale Friends of Israel