Amreeka

OT: Amreeka

Cherien Dabis // USA, Canada, Kuwait, 2008
Fiction Feature // FF2009

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Story

Palestinian single mother Muna Faraha (Nisreen Faour) had completely forgotten about the green card application when it gets accepted. Unwillingly, she makes her way to the land of opportunities, where she must sell burgers in rural Illinois and where her son is treated as a terrorist by his fellow pupils. A melancholy comedy about migrant children in the first generation, torn between their ethnic roots and the Western world.

Director

Cherien Dabis, born in 1976, director and writer. After"Make A Wish" (2006) "Amreeka" is her second film.

Trailer

Info

Original title: Amreeka

Film type: Fiction Feature

Original language: English, Arabic

Section: Agenda 09//FF2009

Production country: USA, Canada, Kuwait

Produced: 2008

Runtime: 97 min

Language and subtitles: OV

Director: Cherien Dabis

Screenplay: Cherien Dabis

Cast: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat

Producer: Christina Piovesan, Paul Barkin

DoP: Tobias Datum

Editor: Keith Reamer

Music: Kareem Roustom

Production design: Aidan Leroux

World Sales: E1 Films International, 175 Bloor Street East, Suite, 1400, M4W3R8 Toronto, Canada, email: dsowter@e1ent.com

Production Company: First Generation Films

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