Amreeka

Amreeka

Director: Cherien Dabis

Writer: Cherien Dabis

Cast: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem

Distributor: National Geographic Entertainment

Country: US

Theatrical Release Date: September 4, 2009

Synopsis: Amreeka chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois. In America, 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 as well as hamburgers at the local White Castle. [Synopsis courtesy of film's official website]

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