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Amreeka (2009) Movie Overview
Amreeka is a 2009 drama film written and directed by Cherien Dabis, her debut feature film. Amreeka premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and was later screened at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. It was screened at a number of festivals worldwide and opened for limited release in the United states on September 4. Amreeka tells the story of a Palestinian woman, Muna (Nisreen Faour), and her teenage son, Fadi (Melkar Muallem). After winning the green card lottery, they move to a suburb of Chicago to live with her sister with her husband and three daughters. Muna loses her money hidden in a box of cookies: the box is confiscated, which is only noticed by Fadi, who does not know about the money. She does not find a job at her level (she was bank employee) but is hired by a White Castle fastfood restaurant; she is ashamed of that and lies to her family that she got a job at the adjacent bank. She gets along well with her young colleague Matt. The family has to cope with negative attitudes toward Arabs. Reacting to this, Fadi starts a fight, and is arrested; however, his school’s principal is very sympathetic to the family, and due to h… Source
- Amreeka Movie Details
- Director: Cherien Dabis
- Official Sites: Official site [fr], Official site
- Tagline: Life's best adventures are journeys of the heart.
- Country: USA , Canada
- Run Time: USA:96 min
- Genre: Drama
- Cast Overview
Nisreen Faour as Muna Farah- Melkar Muallem as Fadi Farah
- Hiam Abbass as Raghda Halaby
Alia Shawkat as Salma- Jenna Kawar as Rana Halaby
- Selena Haddad as Lamis Halaby
Amreeka Movie Review from New York Times
Cherien Dabis’s “Amreeka” (the Arabic word for America) stands alongside “The Visitor” and “Maria Full of Grace” as one of the most accomplished recent films about a non-European immigrant coming to the United States. While the arrivals in the other two movies were not legal immigrants, the indomitably good-natured protagonist of “Amr… Source
Amreeka Movie Info by Apple Movies
Amreeka chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois. In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move through military checkpoints, the indomitable Muna scrambles together a new life… Source
Amreeka Movie Details from Imdb
Muna, a single mother in Ramallah, has applied for a visa to the US. When it comes, her son Fadi, an excellent student, convinces her they should go. After an incident at customs begins their exile badly, they join Muna’s sister and family in Illinois. Muna needs a job: although she has two degrees and 15 years’ experience in banking, she settles f… Source
Amreeka (2009) from YouTube
