ASPEN – Muna Farah, the central character in “Amreeka,” is forced to endure all sorts of humiliations. A single woman emigrating from the West Bank to small-town Illinois, she is treated with ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Even for a small film of surpassing quality, “Amreeka” has gotten a surprising amount of recognition. It was a success at Sundance and took home the coveted ...

Amreeka is the Arabic word for America. The movie of that title — a success at Sundance, and winner of the coveted critics' prize at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes — opens on the West Bank, where ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE’s coverage of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. “Amreeka” opens this Friday. Palestinian filmmaker Cherien Dabis’s “Amreeka” — ...

Even for a small film of surpassing quality, “Amreeka” has received a surprising amount of recognition. It was a success at Sundance and at the opening night of New York’s prestigious New ...

I didn’t respond to the changes in the way people are beginning to view cinema today. My story development process, which began back in 2003, was very much influenced by my own personal experience and ...

The Sundance crowd-pleaser "Amreeka" has sealed a theatrical deal. National Geographic Entertainment has bought all rights to the immigrant dramedy and plans a fall release. By Steven Zeitchik, The ...

Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour), the Palestian single mother who moves with her son from the West Bank to Illinois in the new film Amreeka, is painfully unprepared for the world outside the West Bank. When ...

Cherien Dabis' feature debut Amreeka, a richly observed story of Arab-American immigrants in middle America, hits very close to home. 'I grew up in Ohio, going back to Jordan every summer,' Dabis says ...

"Amreeka," a movie about Palestinian immigrants moving to the United States at the dawn of the 2003 Iraq invasion, should be praised as much for what it is not as what it is. The movie depicts the ...

The Sundance crowd-pleaser "Amreeka" has sealed a theatrical deal. National Geographic Entertainment has bought all rights to the immigrant dramedy, including theatrical, and plans a fall release.