A new — and UPBEAT — immigration film, 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 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. 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. Written and directed by Cherien Dabis, Amreeka was produced by Christina Piovesan and Paul Barkin.
For the N.Y. Times review of Amreeka, click here.
KJ
