Amreeka

Organisation: Birds Eye View

Time: 10 March 2010 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Place: Institute of Contemporary Art, Cinema 2, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

The 6th Birds Eye View Film Festival presents:

Amreeka
A Film by Cherien Dabis

UK PREMIERE
Filmmaker: Cherien Dabis
USA/Canada/Kuwait / 2008 / 97 min
Awards: Winner: FIPRESCI Prize, Cannes; Best Arabic Film, Cairo International Film Festival

Uplifting realism charting a mother and son’s immigration from Palestine to the USA in a post 9/11 world.

Palestinian mum Muna and her teenage son Fadi leave their troubled homeland to start a new life with relatives in Illinois. Homesick yet optimistic upon arriving in the stretching US suburbs, feeling snow on their faces, tackling crucial fashion-choices, and facing the harshness of job rejections and high school violence in a post-9/11 world, the pair chart their first steps of American life with grit and panache. A thought-provoking and ultimately uplifting film.

“Amreeka glows with the truth and magic of everyday life and signals the arrival of an exciting, new directorial talent" Sundance Film Festival 2009

Wednesday, 10th March 2010 at 6.30pm

Institute of Contemporary Art, Cinema 2, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

Tickets: £9 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members.
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About the Director
Palestinian yet brought up in the US, writer director Cherien Dabis has made several shorts including Make A Wish (2006), and has travelled the film festivals of the world with them, picking up prestigious awards at Tribeca, Rotterdam and Chicago, to name three. Cherien also writes and produces for TV (The L-Word).