Film of the Week #2
April 8th - 15th 2020
Amreeka (2009)
Drama, 1h 36m
When a Palestinian single mom and her teenage son immigrate to small-town Illinois during the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, they face racism, discrimination and unemployment in their adopted homeland.
Winner of the FIPRESCI Critics Prize at Cannes in 2009 and voted one of the top ten independent films of the year by the National Board of Review.
Writer and Director: Cherien Dabis
Starring: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass and Alia Shawkat
“Amreeka isn’t a story of American prejudice, but of American reality, the good and the bad.”