Pomegranate Pictures Attaches Yasmine Al-Bustami to Co-Star in Immigration Indie

Yasmine Al-Bustami has been tapped to co-star in the 2021 production of Pomegranate. Pomegranate is a dramedy by writer-director Weam Namou, based on her childhood experiences immigrating from Iraq to the United States, and then as an adult living through the presidential election of 2016.

It’s the story about how, in the weeks before the election of Donald Trump in 2016, a young, politically liberal Iraqi Muslim immigrant struggles to find her footing in a neighborhood of well-to-do politically conservative Iraqi Christians, while battling her family’s fears of deprivation and demands of loyalty to Muslim traditions.

Pomegranate’s writer-director, Weam Namou said, “Yasmine is a natural for bringing the character of Mary, our protagonists’ nemesis, to life. Like Mary, Yas - mine is beautiful, quick witted, and a confident Middle Eastern immigrant.”