| | Year Released: | 2009 |
Jan's Rating: Rich's Rating: | 4 out of 5 3.5 out of 5 | Key Performances: | Hiam Abbass Yussuf Abu-Warda Nisreen Faour Melkar Muallem Joseph Ziegler
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Movie Haiku: | Muna Farah (Faour) has a chance to move her teenage son (Muallem) from the West Bank to suburban Chicago, so she takes it, inadvertently arriving just as Operation Dessert Storm begins. Routine immigrant drama enriched by excellent feel for specific details of time & place. |
ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM: |
Women filmmakers? | Yes |
Jewish content? | Yes |
Haiku Posted: | 2009 |
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