Amreeka

Life's best adventures are journeys of the heart.

Amreeka — Plot

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.

• Release date
• June 17, 2009
• Runtime
• 96 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Cherien Dabis

Amreeka — 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