Sandwiched In: "For My Father"

(2008-96 min.). Tarek (Shredi Jaabarin), a young Palestinian man blackmailed into a suicide mission in Israel, is given a second chance at life when the fuse on his explosive vest fails to detonate. Forced to spend the weekend in tel Aviv awaiting its repair, Tarek must live among the people he was planning to kill. He falls in love with Keren (Hili Yalon), who has cut off contact with her Orthodox Jewish family. Ido and Jonatan Dror scripted for director Dror Zahavi. In Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles. Also, Alex Holmes’s Australian short, Ali & the Ball (2008-15 min.), the story of an 8-year-old boy living in a refugee detention center. This screening comes to us from Film Movement, an organization which makes outstanding independent film, foreign films and documentaries available to educational institutions.