Encore Screening of the TJFF2024 'Chosen Film" Audience Award Winning Film

RUNNING ON SAND

Director Adar Shafran successfully manages to highlight serious issues of systemic racism and wealth disparity with a light touch in this feel-good crowd pleaser. Aumari is saved from being deported from Israeli to Eritrea when he is mistaken as a professional Nigerian soccer player. Despite his lack of soccer talent, he pretends to be the star recruit he was mistaken for, taking his place on the Israeli team and bonding with the daughter of the team’s owner. Chancela Mongoza (Asylum City), who came to Israel as an asylum seeker himself, dazzles as Aumari.