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AMREEKA

Director:

  Cherien Dabis
  

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
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