The Other Son (Le fils de l’autre)
Directed by: Lorraine LévyCast list: Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbé, Jules Sitruk
Country: France
Year: 2012
Genres: Drama /
Runtime: 105 min.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: Original version in French, Arabic, Hebrew and English subtitled in Catalan
This is the story of two families separated by a wall of war, different in everything, life, religion, beliefs, but are close to one another more than they can ever imagine. The Jewish family discover that their son (Joseph) has a blood group type different from his parents, so his father (Alon) can think of only two explanations: either his wife (Orith) has cheated on him, or the boy is not their son. Meanwhile a family doctor made a research and found that in that year when Orith had delivered her baby 18 years ago a raid hit that hospital, and in the panic of trying to escape and save the infants, the babies were switched by mistake. The problem is that the other baby lives on the other side of the wall, a Muslim from a Palestine family. The film tells the story of how these two families deal with this news, and how from being enemies they need to become a family.
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Subjects: Natural science and social sciences (Primary School) / Citizenship (Primary School) / Religion / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / French / Contemporary world / History /
Topics: education in human values / natural resources, wealth and poverty, commerce, consumption / culture of peace, violence, political and armed conflicts. / adolescence, youth / cultural diversity, immigration, emigration / human geography / family, family relationships / human rights / politics, political systems /
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