Amreeka
Amreeka chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of the future in the promised land of small town Illinois. As her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move through military checkpoints, the indomitable Muna scrambles together a new life cooking up falafel burgers at the local White Castle.
- Director
- Cherien Dabis
- Year
- 2009
- Duration
- 96 mins
- Language
- English/Arabic
- Cast
- Alia Shawkat, Hiam Abbass, Melkar Muallem, Nisreen Faour
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