Amreeka

Produced in 2008

Film Information

Festival Edition 2009 - Edition 9

Section Competition

Director Cherien Dabis

Country USA / Canada / Kuwait

Duration 97 min

Language Arabic & English

Category Feature Competition 2009

Producer Christina Piovesan, Paul Barkin

Screenplay Cherien Dabis

Cast Hiam Abbass

Genre Drama

Synopsis

Mouna, a divorcee with a teenage son, is an enthusiastic and optimistic Palestinian woman. Deep in the occupied territories, however, daily life is an ordeal. One day, she leaves with her son Fadi to join her sister living in Illinois. Mouna and Fadi must now find their place in this "Amreeka" they dreamed of. But the United States, which has gone to war with the "devil" Saddam, has a strange sense of hospitality.

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Amreeka