2015 TJFF Opening & Closing Night Films

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TORONTO – Now in its 23rd year the Toronto Jewish Film Festival (TJFF) is thrilled to announce that the Ontario Premiere of Eran Riklis’s A Borrowed Identity (aka Dancing Arabs) will kick off the Festival on April 30. Ten film-filled days later, the Ontario debut of Álvaro Brechner’s Mr. Kaplan will close the Festival on May 10.

A Borrowed Identity (aka Dancing Arabs) is directed by one of Israel most acclaimed filmmakers, Eran Riklis (Zaytoun, The Syrian Bride, Lemon Tree), who will be in attendance for the opening night.

Based on Sayed Kashua’s (Arab Labor) celebrated novel Dancing Arabs, A Borrowed Identity (aka Dancing Arabs) the story of Eyad, an Arab-Israeli boy accepted into a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. At school he finds himself struggling with issues of language, culture, and identity – trying to survive and to find his way in a place where war constantly rages around him.

Closing the Festival is Álvaro Brechner’s (Bad Day to Go Fishing) touching comedy Mr. Kaplan. 76-year old Jacob Kaplan desperately wants to achieve greatness in his life, but he feels his time is running out. When Jacob hears about an old German bar owner jokingly referred to as “the Nazi,” he embarks on a fool’s errand to capture him, full of comic twists. The Hollywood Reporter referred to Mr. Kaplan as ” Uruguay’s best shot ever at the Best Foreign Language Oscar®.”

ASL Translators will be present at both screenings for Introduction and post-screening Q&A.

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