Director Dorit Zimbalist

Countries Israel

Duration 53 min

Synopsis
"I'm scared of cars, of dogs, of snakes. I'm scared of airplanes, helicopters, tanks and soldiers. I'm scared of terrorist attacks. I'm scared of Jews, I'm scared of Arabs, I'm scared that one day, they'll put us in refuges camps". (Sayed Kashua, Haaretz Newspaper 2002) Sayed Kashua always feels he doesn't belong. The Jews don't like him because he's an Arab. The Arabs don't like him because he's successful. The Arabs think he's a collaborator. The Jews think he's an alcoholic. He is always viewed as The Other, and he's always scared. Sayed Kashua – Forever Scared accompanies Kashua, an Israeli – Arab author and scriptwriter, for seven years through the upheavals and events that change his life. This is an intimate yet political portrait of a writer and publicist who is also a loving husband and a father of two. His family pays a heavy price for the choices he makes and the perpetual wandering from place to place, from nation to nation, belonging neither here nor there.