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Amreeka

Release Date 13 May 2011 13 Oct 2011

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Certificate: NR

Genre: Drama

"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. Told with heartfelt humor, "Amreeka" is a universal journey into the lives of a family of immigrants and first-generation teenagers caught between their heritage and the new world in which they now live and the bittersweet search for a place to call home.

Cast:
Nisreen Faour | Melkar Muallem | Hiam Abbass | Alia Shawkat | Jenna Kawar | Selena Haddad | Yussuf Abu-Warda | Joseph Ziegler | Andrew Sannie | Daniel Boiteau

Writers:
Cherien Dabis

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Directors:
Cherien Dabis

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    It sounds heavygoing but if anything Amreeka is a little too sweet and cosy for its own good.

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