Natours Grocery (2020)
Overview
Filmmaker Nadine Natour turns her lens on her parents and her hometown, Appomattox, VA, to capture the story of her parents' emigration from Palestine to the United States. An uplifting, layered and often funny portrait of Palestinian Muslim immigrants Gehad and Sabah Natour, as the success of their popular grocery store defies xenophobia in the conservative rural town where the Civil War ended.
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| Original Language | en |
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Directed By
Nadine Natour
Crew
Nadine Natour
Paul Maroon
Nadine Natour
Nadine Natour
Nadine Natour
Julie Cohen
Ursula Liang
Maral Noshad Sharifi
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