- Description:
- DVD - Region 1. viewing copy. 2 videodiscs of 2..
color.
widescreen. sound - stereo.
- Notes:
- Supplemental features: filmmaker audio commentary; filmmaker interview; trailers.
Titles
+ Let The Show Begin
- Director:
- Taleb, Dhafir
- Production Co:
- Independent Film & Television College of Baghdad
- Running Time:
- Short. 15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Iraq
- Year:
- 2005
- Language:
- Arabic with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Sound. In Arabic with English subtitles.
Amid the bombs and chaos that is Baghdad, a group of young people manage to put on a short film festival.
+ Baghdad Days
- Director:
- Bassem, Hiba
- Production Co:
- Independent Film & Television College of Baghdad
- Running Time:
- Short. 35 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Iraq
- Year:
- 2005
- Language:
- Arabic language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Female Directors
- Notes:
- A young woman from Kirkuk returns to Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein to finish her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts. The film is a diary of her year as she tries to step back into her normal life and her plans.
+ Hiwar
- Director:
- Saleh, Kifaya
- Production Co:
- Independent Film & Television College of Baghdad
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Iraq
- Year:
- 2005
- Language:
- Arabic with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Sound. In Arabic with English subtitles.
A documentary about Baghdad’s Hiwar Arts Centre.
+ Omar Is My Friend
- Director:
- Shaker, Mounaf
- Production Co:
- Independent Film & Television College of Baghdad
- Running Time:
- Short. 15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Iraq
- Year:
- 2005
- Language:
- Arabic with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Sound. In Arabic with English subtitles.
A student at Baghdad University works as a taxi driver to support his wife and 4 daughters. As he negotiates his taxi around checkpoints, tanks and traffic jams, he discusses work, lack of gasoline, electricity, having daughters in a male-dominated society, his personal aspirations and those of his society.
+ Iraq Before The War
- Director:
- Longley, James
- Running Time:
- Short. 20 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Year:
- 2006
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Congressman Jim McDermott and a group of activists and journalists enter Baghdad in March 2003.
+ Sari’s Mother
- Director:
- Longley, James
- Production Co:
- Daylight Factory
- Running Time:
- Short. 21 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2006
- Language:
- Arabic language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- An Iraqi woman struggles to care for her son, who has AIDS.
+ Iraq In Fragments
- Director:
- Longley, James
- Production Co:
- Daylight Factory; Typecast Pictures
- Running Time:
- Feature. 94 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2006
- Language:
- Arabic and Kurdish with optional English, French, German, Japanese or Spanish subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- A documentary in three parts offering a series of intimate portraits of three groups of Iraqis: Sunni muslims, Shia muslims and Kurds.
Supplemental features: filmmaker audio commentary; filmmaker interview; SARI’S MOTHER (Longley, 2006, 21 minutes); IRAQ BEFORE THE WAR (Longley, 2003, 14 minutes); trailers; Independent Film & Television College of Baghdad student short films: BAGHDAD DAYS (IFTC, 35 minutes); HIWAR (12 minutes); OMAR IS MY FRIEND (15 minutes); LET THE SHOW BEGIN (15 minutes).
- Link to:
- FII catalog |