American Herro (2009)
57m
Running Time
February 17, 2009Release Date
Plot.
American Herro is the remarkable story of a young Kurdish girl who comes to America as a refugee from Iraq and lives out the American dream. 30-years later, traveling the globe working for Condoleeza Rice, U.S. Diplomat Herro Mustafa invites her first American friend, filmmaker Kirk Roos, to visit Iraq and retrace her steps to freedom.
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Cast & Crew.
Herro Mustafa
Herself
Kirk Roos
Director
Details.
Release DateFebruary 17, 2009
StatusReleased
Running Time57m
Budget$100,000
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
american
kurdistan
kurdish
diaspora
documental
foreign service
Wiki.
American Herro is a biographical documentary film about Herro Mustafa, an American diplomat and senior adviser on the Middle East to Joe Biden when he was Vice President.
The documentary covers Herro's early childhood as a Kurdish-Muslim refugee from Iraq as she fled with her family from Iraqi Kurdistan while under Saddam Hussein's regime to Minot, North Dakota, as well as her academic success and successful career as a diplomat stationed in Bosnia, Turkey, Iraq, and elsewhere. The documentary features home video footage of Mustafa's family in Iraq, photography from her childhood, and modern interviews with family, coworkers, and her trip back to Iraq.