Amreeka English Drama Movie 2009Cast And Crew
Cast: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat,
Jenna Kawar, Selena Haddad, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Joseph Ziegler,
Andrew Sannie, Daniel Boiteau, Brodie Sanderson, Aaron Hughes And Many Others,
Direction: Cherien Dabis
Production:Cherien Dabis, Paul Barkin, George Khleifi, Christina Piovesan,
Greg Keever, Alicia Sams, Zain Al-Sabah, Elizabeth Jarvis
Distributor: Look Now!
Producer: First Generation Films,
Alcina Pictures, Buffalo Gal Pictures,
Levantine Entertainment, Eagle Vision Media Group
Writer: Cherien Dabis
Script: Cherien Dabis
Camera: Tobias Datum
Release date: 17.12.2009 (German part)
Run Time: 92min
Land (year): Canada, USA (2009)
Genre: Drama
Amreeka English Film Plot:
A drama centered on an immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Illinois.Watch online Movie Trailer free Amreeka Hollywood film.The film Directed by Cherien Dabis .
Left by her husband and barely surviving the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, a Palestinian leaves the country with her adolescent son to start a new life with her sister in small-town Illinois. Once there, daily reality sets in and integration proves to be more difficult that expected, especially since the confused local population sees her as the enemy, somehow connected to Iraq and the attacks of 9/11.
This moving tragicomedy was the winner of the FIPRESCI Prize during the Director's Fortnight at Cannes.Amreeka Hollywood Movie Review :
This story follows a Middle-Eastern woman as she struggles living in an military-occupied West Bank. When she receives notice that she has been chosen in a lottery for a U.S. Green Card, she has to make the decision whether or not to uproot herself and her son for greener pastures. After making the decision to go, leaving her mother and brother behind, she realizes that life in Amreeka (America) is not all that she had dreamed it would be. Facing prejudice everywhere she turns, she makes other hard choices in trying to support her family...the son she brought to America with her and the relatives that she is staying with in the Midwest who are facing prejudice and struggling to make ends meet. In the end, this film reminds the viewer of the importance of family and the sacrifices we make for those we love.
Amreeka (the Arabic word for America) is a humorous and warm-hearted first feature from Cherien Dabis that follows a Palestinian woman, Muna (Nisreen Faour) and her sixteen-year-old son, Fadi (Melkar Muallem) from the checkpoints of the West Bank to the checkmates of racial animosity in a small town in Illinois near Chicago. Set in 2003 at the start of the Iraq War, Muna leaves Bethlehem because she desires a better life for her son and can no longer put up with overbearing Israeli police, the harangues of her elderly mother, and reminders of her philandering ex-husband.
The opening sequence in which Muna is ecstatic about receiving her Green Card in the mail and says tearful goodbyes to her family on her way to America joyously captures the closeness of family and their caring for each other in a lighthearted manner.
Unfortunately in the rest of the film things do not go as well for the young family. They have to deal with numerous incidents of overt and covert racism including bullying at school as they try to adjust to a new home and a new country.
Things start off badly when Muna and Fadi are harassed for three hours at the airport by Israeli customs and a tin box filled with cookies and all of their savings are handed over by Fadi to customs officials.
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