Amreeka

United States, Canada

2009

96 Min

Color

2.35:1

Arabic, English

Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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EXEC Cherien Dabis, Alicia Sams

PROD Paul Barkin, Christina Piovesan

CAST Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat, Joseph Ziegler, Jenna Kawar, Selena Haddad, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Brodie Sanderson

MUSIC Kareem Roustom

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs): FIPRESCI Prize, São Paulo, Sundance (Dramatic Competition), Melbourne (International Panorama), !F Istanbul (Spotlight), Stockholm

Synopsis

Mouna, a divorcee with a teenage son, is an enthusiastic and optimistic Palestinian woman. Deep in the occupied territories, however, daily life is an ordeal. But then one day, she has the chance to leave this life and work in the United States – a stranger in her own land, Mouna can just as well be the same elsewhere. So she leaves with her son Fadi to join her sister living in Illinois. After the comfort of reunion, Mouna and Fadi now must find their place in this “Amreeka” they’ve dreamed of. But the United States, which has gone to war with the “devil” Saddam, has a strange sense of hospitality. —Directors’ Fortnight

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Prewitt

21Feb12

The charm overcomes a lot of the simplistic script elements....this could have been a lot better but it was still pretty good.

Rio Johan

12Aug11

Despite ended with such cliche, I like the performance.

Kyle Lewis

1Feb11

Hiam Abbas can never do wrong.

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Nutter Jr

26Sep10

Dabis is lucky to have such a wonderful cast on the debut film as director But this story about post 9/11 xenophobic America feels patchy at times and does not avoid the trap of introducing Hollywood-esque feel-good moments in an otherwise strong drama.