Westhampton Beach - As part of its "Finest in World Cinema" series, the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center will screen director Cherien Dabis' Cannes Film Festival Award-winning comedy "Amreeka" on Friday, October 30 and Saturday, October 31 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mollie Parnis Auditorium.

"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.

Told with heartfelt humor by writer-director Dabis in her feature film debut, "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.

"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.

"Amreeka" is in English and Arabic, Rated PG-13, and 96 minutes. For more information go to www.amreeka.com.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for students/seniors, and $3 for WHBPAC Film Society members, and can be purchased (1) on-line at www.whbpac.org, (2) calling the Box Office at 631-288-1500, or (3) at 76 Main Street, Westhampton Beach Wednesday through Sunday, 12 noon to 6 p.m. and later on show nights.