The RiverRun International Film Festival has again partnered with Bookmarks’ “Book With Purpose” program to present a special screening of the 2022 festival favorite Americanish at 8 p.m. Saturday, August
"American ish" – co-written by Aizzah Fatima and Iman K. Zawahry, and directed by the latter – is a rom com for an America too many don't want to acknowledge. Whereas most mainstream American TV and films present the Muslim immigrant community as a monolithic group with a kind of hive mind, this film goes out of its way to break the mould. By Richard Marcus