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Muna Farah, a Palestinian single mom, struggles to maintain her optimistic spirit in the daily grind of intimidating West Bank checkpoints, the constant nagging of a controlling mother, and the haunting shadows of a failed marriage. Everything changes one day when she receives a letter informing her...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roustom, Kareem (Composer)
Corporate Authors: National Geographic Entertainment (Firm), Image Nation (Firm), Levantine Entertainment (Firm), Maximum Films, First Generation Films (Firm), Alcina Pictures, Buffalo Gal Pictures (Firm), Eagle Vision Media Group, Rotana Studios, Showtime Arabia, Virgil Films
Other Authors: Dabis, Cherien, 1976- (Screenwriter, Director, Producer), Piovesan, Christina (Producer), Barkin, Paul (Producer), Sams, Alicia (Producer), Keever, Gregory (Producer), Faour, Nisreen, 1972- (Actor), Abbass, Hiam (Actor), Shawkat, Alia, 1989- (Actor), Muallem, Melkar (Actor), Abu-Warda, Yussuf (Actor), Ziegler, Joseph (Actor), Hlehel, Amer (Actor), Datum, Tobias (Cinematographer), Leroux, Aidan (Artistic director), Reamer, Keith (Film editor), Henderson, Patricia (Costume designer)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Arabic
Language Notes:In Arabic and English ; Arabic portions have English subtitles.
Published: [United States] : New York : National Geographic Entertainment ; Virgil Films, [2009]
Subjects:
Single mothers > Drama.
Mothers and sons > Drama.
Palestinian Arabs > United States > Drama.
Immigrants > United States > Drama.
Arab American families > Drama.
Arab American women > Drama.
Arab American youth > Drama.
West Bank > Drama.
Illinois > Drama.
Arab American families.
Arab American women.
Arab American youth.
Immigrants.
Mothers and sons.
Palestinian Arabs.
Single mothers.
Illinois.
United States.
West Bank.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Description
Summary:Muna Farah, a Palestinian single mom, struggles to maintain her optimistic spirit in the daily grind of intimidating West Bank checkpoints, the constant nagging of a controlling mother, and the haunting shadows of a failed marriage. Everything changes one day when she receives a letter informing her that her family has been granted a U.S. green card, and she moves with her teenage son to small town Illinois.
Item Description:DVD release of the 2009 motion picture.
Special features: "Make a wish" (a short film from director Cherien Dabis); Deleted scenes: Muna at the post office, Fadi at immigration, Muna and Raghda have lunch, Art school conversation; Outakes: Singing and dancing, Too much, Sing a long.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD video; NTSC, all regions; widescreen presentation; Dolby digital.
Audience:MPAA Rating: PG-13; for brief drug use involving teens and some language.
Awards:Heartland Award: Truly Moving Picture; Winner Cannes Film Festival 2009, Fipresci Award.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Tobias Datum ; production designer, Aidan Leroux ; editor, Keith Reamer ; costume designer, Patricia Henderson ; music by Kareem Roustom.