Monthly Screenings
Monthly Screenings feature films and discussions about the various cultures of our world, including the many varied cultures in our own country. The screenings are held the 4th Friday of each month, beginning at 7:00 PM in the Upstairs Screening Room at the Movies at Midway. Admission is $2 for card-carrying RBFS members and $4 for non-members.
Amreeka
7:00 PM, Friday, May 28
Amreeka chronicles the adventures of single mother Muna and her teenage son Fadi, as they leave their Palestinian homeland to travel to small town Illinois. Unfortunately, they make this move just as the U.S. invades Iraq, and mother and son encounter the surge of prejudice gripping the post-9/11 American population. Although Muna has two degrees and 15 years' experience in banking, no one will hire her, so she settles for work at White Castle. Fadi is faced with that most extreme cultural shock of all: American high school and its cruel population, the teenager.
Told with heartfelt humor by writer-director Cherien Dabis in her feature film debut, Amreeka is inspired by Dabis’s family’s memories of their lives in rural America during the first Iraq War. However, the story is universal; the lives of a family of immigrants and first-generation teenagers caught between their heritage and the new world in which they now live. [2009, Runtime: 103 min, Rated PG-13]
