The Little Traitor, a charming 2007 film based on a novel by Amos Oz, screens at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, August 8, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center.

The story is set in Palestine in 1947, just months before Israel’s statehood.

In The Little Traitor, 11-year-old Proffy Liebowitz, and his friends spend their time plotting ways to harass the British occupiers — anything to get them to leave. One evening Proffy is caught out past curfew by a British officer (played by Alfred Molina). What ensues, surprisingly, is a life-changing friendship between two foes.

One festival director put it this way: “This business of putative enemies becoming buds would be insufferably cute if director Lynn Roth had tried to over-moralize the thing, but she doesn’t. If The Little Traitor is cute, it’s not affectedly so — it gets there on the basis of a good, honest heart.”

The Hebrew Center is located on Center street in Vineyard Haven. Admission to the film is $10.