[LCM Events] LCM presents: AMREEKA

[Georges Aoude]

The *Lebanese Club at MIT* welcomes you to a screening of the new movie
"Amreeka" as part of its Uncut Film Series.

DATE : February 24th, 2010
TIME : 6:30 PM
ROOM : 1-190
 (for more information on location :
http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=6<http://whereis.mit.edu/>
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Refreshments and Lebanese sweets will be provided.

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*Amreeka made its world premiere in dramatic competition at the 2009
Sundance Film Festival, and played as Opening Night of New Directors/New
Films, a co-presentation of The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Society of
Lincoln Center.  Amreeka made its debut internationally in Directors’
Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and was winner of the Fipresci Prize
at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.*
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*Synopsis*:

*Told with heartfelt humor by writer-director Cherien Dabis in her feature
film debut, Amreekais 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. 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 promised land of 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.

*Trailer:*

See the trailer at http://www.amreeka.com/

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Georges Aoude
Ph.D. Candidate
Aerospace Controls Laboratory
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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