The Collaborator and his Family
Director Ruthie Shatz, Adi Barash
Countries Israel, Israel, France
Duration 84 min
Synopsis
THE COLLABORATOR AND HIS FAMILY is the story of a family torn apart by espionage. In this cinema verité film we follow the El-Akels, a Palestinian family whose father, Ibrahim, has been a collaborator for IL for the past twenty years. Labeled a traitor by Palestinians, Ibrahim’s three sons; Mahmoud, (12), Suffian (16), and Muhammad (17), along with their mother, Yusra, pay the heaviest price for the father’s covert actions and carry with them, not by their choice, a scarlet letter. The film chronicles the El-Akel family in their attempts to cope and assimilate to ILi society and keep their family together, while suffering the humiliation and fate of outcasts in a country not their own.
THE COLLABORATOR AND HIS FAMILY is the story of a family torn apart by espionage. In this cinema verité film we follow the El-Akels, a Palestinian family whose father, Ibrahim, has been a collaborator for IL for the past twenty years. Labeled a traitor by Palestinians, Ibrahim’s three sons; Mahmoud, (12), Suffian (16), and Muhammad (17), along with their mother, Yusra, pay the heaviest price for the father’s covert actions and carry with them, not by their choice, a scarlet letter. The film chronicles the El-Akel family in their attempts to cope and assimilate to ILi society and keep their family together, while suffering the humiliation and fate of outcasts in a country not their own.