Screengrab editor emeritus Bilge Ebiri reports from the frontlines of Park City.



The number of films about Middle Eastern immigrants in the US have ticked up noticeably in recent years, for obvious reasons, and as a Middle Easterner myself, I had high hopes that Cherien Dabis’s Amreeka would provide a corrective to the easy potshots at suburban ignorance that are starting to become a staple of the genre. My hopes were dashed, but that’s not to say that there’s a lot to admire in Dabis’s low-budget, earnest effort...

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