According to a statistic that opens Eran Riklis’s coming-of-age film, which plays as part of this year’s Seattle Jewish Film Festival, “20 percent of Israel’s citizens are Arab.” Drawing from Sayed Kashua’s semiautobiographical novel Dancing Arabs, Riklis (The Syrian Bride, Lemon Tree) focuses on Eyad, a sensitive young man navigating his identity as an ethnic minority in the 1980s and 1990s. Everyone in Tira considers Eyad a genius, but his future is unclear. When his father, Salah (Ali Suliman), isn’t picking fruit, he’s fighting for Palestinian liberation. Eyad tells people he’s a terrorist, but Salah describes himself as a warrior…
A Borrowed Identity plays Sunday, March 15, 5 pm, Pacific Place.