NIF in the UK Jewish Film Festival

Come to watch the NIF-sponsored film ‘Strangers’ (Zarim) !

Sun 16/11/2008 - 20:00   Odeon Swiss Cottage
Thu 20/11/2008 - 20:45   Everyman Hampstead

Director: Erez Tadmor, Guy Nativ
Israel 2007 85 mins
Language: Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles
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We’ve all locked eyes with an attractive stranger on the underground, but most of us haven’t accidentally picked up their bag. That’s how Palestinian Rana (Lubna Azabal) and Israeli Eyal (Liron Levo) meet by chance in Berlin. Eyal promised an ex-girlfriend he’d be there for the 2006 football World Cup, but finds his calls unanswered; Rana is running from something. Two orphans in a strange city, the pair swap bags and decide to look for somewhere tostay. A holiday romance ensues despite the fact he’s from a kibbutz and she’s from Ramallah.

But Rana has unfinished business back in Paris, and when Eyal follows her their innocent love affair gets a lot more complicated. Will they realise that all they really need to have in common (besides their taste in rucksacks) is each other? Set against the backdrop of the 2006 Lebanon War, Strangers is a beautifully acted, down-to-earth love story with two great leads in the free-spirited Azabal and the handsome Levo, who’s sure to inspire some swooning in the aisles.

The New Israel Fund is the leading organisation advancing progressive, democratic change in Israel, fighting for human rights, social justice and religious pluralism for all Israelis.  NIF works to strengthen understanding and cooperation between Jews and Arabs in Israel and to achieve full equality for Israeli-Arabs and other minorities within Israeli society.  Learn more www.newisraelfund.org.uk

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