Amreeka

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. In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move through military checkpoints, the indomitable Muna scrambles together a new life cooking up falafel burgers as well as hamburgers at the local White Castle. Told with heartfelt humor by writer-director Cherien Dabis in her feature film debut, 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.

Director: Cherien Dabis
Producer: Alicia Sams
Producer: Cherien Dabis
Producer: Christina Piovesan
Producer: Paul Barkin
Actor: Nisreen Faour
Actor: Melkar Muallem
Actor: Hiam Abbass
Actor: Yussuf Abu-Warda
Actor: Alia Shawkat
Actor: Andrew Sannie
Actor: Brodie Sanderson
Actor: Daniel Boiteau
Actor: Jeff Sutton
Actor: Mike O'Brien
Actor: Suheila Muallem
Actor: Joseph Ziegler
Actor: Selena Haddad
Actor: Jenna Kawar
Actor: Miriam Smith
Actor: Glen Thompson
Actor: Amer Hlehel