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Amreeka (2009)
Directed by Cherien Dabis
“Life's best adventures are journeys of the heart.”
Drama · 1h 36m
Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi, divorcée Muna Farah leaves her Palestinian homeland and takes up residence in rural Illinois -- just in time to encounter the domestic repercussions of America's disastrous war in Iraq. Now, the duo must reinvent their lives with some help from Muna's sister, Raghda, and brother-in-law, Nabeel.
Cast
N
Nisreen Faour
Muna Farah
M
Melkar Muallem
Fadi Farah
Hiam Abbass
Raghda Halaby
Alia Shawkat
Salma Halaby
J
Jenna Kawar
Rana Halaby
J
Joseph Ziegler
Stan Novatski
Yussuf Abu-Warda
Nabeel Halaby
S
Selena Haddad
Lamis Halaby
Amer Hlehel
Samer
S
Suheila Muallem
Jamie
B
Brodie Sanderson
Matt
A
Andrew Sannie
James
Crew
- Director
- Cherien Dabis
- Writer
- Cherien Dabis
- Director of Photography
- Tobias Datum
- Original Music Composer
- Kareem Roustom
- Editor
- Keith Reamer
- Producer
- Paul Barkin, Christina Piovesan
Details
- Release date
- 2009-06-17
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, English, French
- Countries
- Canada, Jordan, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, United States of America
- Production
- First Generation Films, Alcina Pictures, Buffalo Gal Pictures, Levantine Entertainment, Eagle Vision Media Group, Image Nation Studios, MFM, Maximum Film International, R.A. Abdoo & Co., Rotana Studios, Showtime Arabia, Violet Jabara Foundation, National Geographic
- Box office
- $2,176,304