Amreeka

Date: December 11, 2009
Time: 5:30 and 8:00 p.m.
Place: Tower Theater
815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno

Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors

CineCulture, together with Filmworks, presents:

Amreeka (2009) 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.

Told with heartfelt humor by writer-director Cherien Dabis, Amreeka is 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.
English, 96 min. PG-13.

For more information:
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/

CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department: MCJ 177T (Spring 2010 course # 37395).

For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu. CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.

Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu