Amreeka (2009)

96 min · Drama, drama film

Popularity3.5/5

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Directors

Cherien Dabis

Cast

Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat, Jenna Kawar, Daniel Boiteau

The story

Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour) is a divorced Palestinian Christian mother raising her teenage son Fadi (Melkar Muallem). She works for a bank in Ramallah, part of the West Bank, Palestinian territories. Each day after work, Muna picks up Fadi from school and crosses through an Israeli checkpoint in order to get to their home in Bethlehem.

Catalogue themes and tags

Adaptation, American Dream, Differences, Diskriminerung, Double Life, Dream, Effort, Familie, Flucht, Job, Jugendliche, Migration, Mother Son Relationship, New Beginning, Nine Eleven, Optimism, Palestine, Palestinian, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Worker, culture clash, Drama, Indie

Genres

Drama, drama film

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