Event

The Other Son SUNDAY SCHMOOZE

Sunday, May 19 Bagel Brunch at 10 am Film at 11 am
Join Sunday Schmooze host Fred Craden for an exploration of this moving Israeli drama about an Israeli family who discover that their son was switched at at birth with a Palestinian As he prepares to join the Israeli army for his national service, Joseph discovers he is not his parents' biological son, but that he was inadvertently switched at birth with Yassin, the son of a Palestinian family from the West Bank. This revelation turns the lives of these two families upside down, forcing them to reassess their respective identities, their values and their beliefs. This moving drama about an Israeli family approaches the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a way that transcends the history and politics and delves deeper towards our shared humanity.
France/Israel, 2012, 103 mins., color in French with English subtitles Director/Co-writer: Lorraine Levy Co-writers: Noam Fitoussi, Nathalie Saugeon Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbé, Jules Sitruk, Mehdi Dehbi, Areen Omari, Khalifa Natour, Mahmud Shalaby