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JACIR جاسر

جاسر

By Waheed ALQAWASMI

WAFILMS - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2021

A Syrian refugee settles in a rough neighborhood in Memphis, TN, where he must navigate new obstacles, especially dealing with his opioid addicted conservative elderly white neighbor.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Drama, Social issues, Comedy
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ARABIC, ENGLISH-UNITED STATES
- Duration
- 104 mn
- Director(s)
- Waheed ALQAWASMI
- Writer(s)
- Waheed ALQAWASMI
- Cast
- Lorraine BRACCO, Malek RAHBANI, Darius "tutweezy" TUTWILER, Leila Almas ROSE, Tony MEHANNA
- Producer(s)
- Mariana TREVINO (WAFILMS), Waheed ALQAWASMI (WAFILMS)
- Synopsis
- After surviving the Syrian war and becoming a refugee, Jacir, now resettled into a rough neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee, is in search of a new life. He finds himself alone, with no knowledge of the culture, and struggles with his poor English… far from the ideal new life he imagined. A strange new environment is the least of Jacir’s problems when he befriends a cat, Morty, which belongs to his next-door neighbor, Meryl, an elderly Caucasian lady who is an opioid addicted shut-in and former blues singer.
  
  Influenced by conservative talk shows, Meryl wants nothing to do with her new neighbor and makes it a point to give him the cold shoulder. Jacir embarks on a journey to win the affection of a new love interest, Nadia, while dealing with her overzealous dad Adam; and measuring a newfound friendship with an African American rapper named Jerome.
  
  All the while, he must prove to Agent Simmons with I.C.E that his suspicions are unfounded.