Dancing Arabs Page #2

Synopsis: A Palestinian-Israeli boy named Eyad is sent to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem, where he struggles with issues of language, culture, and identity.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Eran Riklis
Production: Strand Releasing
  1 win & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
NOT RATED
Year:
2014
104 min
Website
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- Terrorist. Welcome.

Eyad, come down. Food's ready.

Come. Let's go eat.

Why aren't you eating? It's delicious. Try it.

Why won't he eat?

If the Jewish boy goes home hungry,

Principal Jamal will kill you.

What? It that jerk touches you, just tell me.

I'll show him.

Try the chicken.

- No, I don't feel well. I want to go home.

- Why? It's good.

HEBREW LESSON:

What is Dad's job?

- My dad's a builder.

- Good.

- My dad's a fruit picker.

- Good.

Mechanic.

- What?

- Mechanic.

- My dad's...

- ...a mechanic.

My dad's a terrorist.

Stand up and repeat after me:

- My dad's a fruit picker.

- My dad's a terrorist.

- Fruit picker.

- Terrorist.

- Fruit picker.

- Terrorist.

Put out your hands.

My dad's a fruit picker!

- My dad's a terrorist.

- My dad's a fruit picker!

- My dad's a terrorist.

- Fruit picker!

Moron!

My dad's a terrorist.

Sit down!

You'll be just like your father:

nothing but a fruit picker.

My dear Eyad...

I love you.

- Good night.

- Good night.

Like I said already, your son is gifted.

- Greetings.

- Greetings to you.

My advice? Send him to a better school.

Send him where? To the Jews?

They'll never accept an Arab kid.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen

and welcome to our daily show.

Today we have a surprise for you, viewers.

A few days ago, Principal Jamal suggested

that instead of short, easy riddles,

we should have a real quiz show,

like on Israeli radio. Welcome Principal Jamal!

- Dear viewers.

- Hello.

I asked myself how can I...

- That government agent was in your class, right?

- He was in everyone's class.

He spent five years in ninth grade.

Please, Principal Jamal.

"It comes from the land of Uncle Sam...

and is blue as the sky.

It can look like a cloud.

The Arabs have problems with its beginning,

and Abd Alwahab lives in it."

Wow, viewers, such a good riddle...

Forget him. Keep playing.

Let's see if these fruit pickers can solve it!

- Dad, can I ask you something?

- Go ahead, ask away.

- What's a terrorist?

- Who taught you that word? Principal Jamal?

No one.

Don't listen to him.

He's not a teacher, he's an idiot.

Greetings.

There's no such word as terrorist...

The Jews invented it to confuse everyone.

"Warrior" is the right word.

- And is a warrior good, Dad?

- You're asking me if a warrior is good?

Kids in Beirut and Tel az-Zaatar

are demonstrating on the streets shouting

PLO! Israel No!

And you don't know what a warrior is?

You really don't know?

- So, you're a warrior, Dad?

- What? Of course not. Forget it.

Comrades,

as a strong party, people are following us

and expecting us to solve this riddle.

Especially since it was written

by a government agent like Jamal.

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Sayed Kashua

Sayed Kashua (Arabic: سيد قشوع‎, Hebrew: סייד קשוע‎; born 1975) is an Palestinian-Israeli author and journalist born in Tira, Israel, known for his books and humorous columns in the Hebrew language. more…

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