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THE OTHER SON (LE FILS DE L'AUTRE)
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Completed - FRENCH, HEBREW, ENGLISH, ARABIC - Drama - 105 minutes

Log Line

Two families - one Israeli, the other Palestinian - discover that their 18-year-old sons were inadvertently switched at birth.




Previous markets

  • Berlin EFM 2012 (Premiere)
  • Cannes 2012 (Screening)
  • Berlin EFM 2013 (Line up)
  • Berlin EFM 2014 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2012

Director(s) : Lorraine LÉVY
 Writer(s) : Nathalie SAUGEON, Lorraine LÉVY, Noam FITOUSSI
 Cast : Emmanuelle DEVOS, Pascal ELBE, Jules SITRUK, Mehdi DEHBI, Areen OMARI, Khalifa NATOUR

 Producer(s) : Virginie LACOMBE (Rapsodie Production), Raphaël BERDUGO (Cité Films)

Synopsis

As he is preparing to join the Israeli army for his national service, Joseph discovers he is not his parents’ biological son, and that he was inadvertently switched at birth with Yacin, 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.

Production

Country(ies) : FRANCE

Distributors More info with Europa distribution

ARGENTINA MIRADA DISTRIBU
AUSTRALIA SBS TELEVISION
AUSTRALIA CURIOUS FILM
FRANCE HAUT ET COURT D
GERMANY Sep 17, 2015 FILM KINO TEXT
SPAIN SURTSEY FILMS
SWEDEN TRIART FILM
TURKEY SIYAH BEYAZ FIL
USA STARZ ENTERTAIN
USA COHEN MEDIA GRO


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Festivals and Awards

Tokyo - TiffCom 2012 - Competition (Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix; Best Director)


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