Foreign Letters

Foreign Letters Hebrew is a 2012 IsraeliAmerican drama film based on a true story of the movies writer and director, Ela Thier.

Ellie Noa Rotstein has come to the United States from Israel with her father, mother, and little brother in 1982. After her uncle was killed by friendly fire during the 1982 Lebanon War, her parents decided to leave the country in protest. Feeling homesick, Ellie keeps in touch with her best friend in Israel telling her about their new television and shopping in thrift stores. But as time goes on, she gets more and more frustrated about not knowing English.At school where she is in sixth grade, Ellie takes a special class in order to learn how to speak and write. To push herself even more, she purchases a typewriter so she can practice this new language. At school, a popular girl ridicules her for wearing a pendant with Hebrew letters on it and speaks down to her. So Ellie turns to the only other outsider in her class Thuy Dalena Le, a Vietnamese girl who lives in a small apartment with her parents and brothers and sisters they fled from there after the Vietnam War. ........

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