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Credits Edit. Expand below. Previous 9. Lovesick in the West Bank 6. Peta Pan Short. Never Leave Me 6. Eyes of a Thief 6. Villa Touma 6. The Savior 6. Amreeka 7. Gehalim Iohashot 8. In the 9th Month 7. Videos 8. Clip Personal details Edit. Born August 2Ma'alot-Tarshiha, Israel. Related news. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content.

Learn more about contributing. Edit page. More to explore. Muna is dismayed by the stereotypes he describes to her. She also informs him that she and Fadi are not Muslims, but are rather from a minority community. Embarrassed by his assumption, Mr. Novatski apologizes and says that he is a minority as well as an American Jew whose grandparents were Polish Jews.

She is surprised to learn that he is Jewish. Muna asks him to drop her off at the bank but forgets her purse, an act which leads him to discover that she works secretly at White Castle. Deciding to have a meal there, they discover that they both nisreen faour wiki divorced. On another day, local high school students make discriminatory remarks about Fadi to Muna while she is working in White Castle.

She chases them out, only to slip on a drink one of the boys poured on the floor and fall flat on her back. Matt immediately calls her family who then discovers her secret. Furious over the incident, Fadi gets into a fight with one of the boys and is subsequently arrested. In addition to assault, ambiguous charges are also leveled towards him that are serious enough to prevent Muna from getting him released.

Muna contacts Mr. Novatski who rushes to the police station and tells the officers that the accusations are without merit and that he will assume responsibility for Fadi. Fadi is thus released from jail. These events also lead Raghda and Nabeel to reconcile. A little while later, Muna is working at White Castle and her family comes to take her to a Middle Eastern restaurant for dinner.

While leaving she bumps into Mr. Novatski and invites him to join them for dinner. Raghda teases Muna when he enters the car and the evening ends with music and dancing. We shot in a loose, semi-documentary style with the Arriwhich allowed us freedom of movement because it's so lightweight and portable.

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And we planned long takes and fluid camera movements choreographed in congruence with the blocking of the actors to lend an organic, true-to-life feel. I used improvisational techniques in working with the actors to achieve natural performances and capture the honesty of human emotion. Throughout the process, I was influenced by the work of such directors as Mike LeighJohn Cassavetesand Robert Altman for their amazing ability to re-create the truth of everyday life.

Dabis began working on the screenplay for Amreeka while a graduate student in film at Columbia University School of the Arts in There was something about her that was so youthful, and yet, I could still see in her eyes the depth of sadness that her life experience had given her. On the choice of Melkar Muallem as Fadi, Dabis commented that he was, "the son of a Palestinian woman who helped cast the film.

He wanted nothing to do with acting—both parents are actors, and he's only interested in computer science. I begged him to audition, and after he did, he wanted the part. Dabis modeled the family after her own, making them Christian Palestinians. While in high school, serious accusations were leveled at her sister, who was saved by the intervention of the school principal.

Dabis chose to make her fictional version of this principal, Mr. Novatski Joseph Zieglera Jewish-American to create parallel experiences related to "immigration and displacement. The scenes in the West Bank were shot on location in Ramallah while the portion of the film set in Illinois was shot in Winnipeg. Dabis states that she chose to work in Canada rather than the United States because of "the tax incentives combined with the fact that Manitoba offered us provincial equity for shooting the film there.

That was huge! It enabled us to close our financing and go into production sooner rather than later. Gotham Independent Film Awards The DVD of the film was released on January 12, It also includes director Cherien Dabis ' nisreen faour wiki feature, Make a Wishwhich premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received a number of awards at other festivals.

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