Iraqi
see all genres ›Subject of innumerable (mostly foreign-produced) documentaries and a few fiction features over the last decade, Iraq's own spotty filmmaking history turned almost entirely toward propagandic content under Saddam Hussein. Since his ouster, the war-torn country has struggled to rebuild its industry.
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Operation Filmmaker
In the wake of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," American actor Liev Schreiber had an idealistic notion: to rescue an Iraqi film student from the rubble of his country and bring him to the West to intern on a Hollywood movie. It promised to be a heartwarming tale, a small victory out...Watch Movie
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Thief
Struggling to survive in Iraq in December 2003, the dark days after the American invasion, Mehdi, a humble goatherder, lives a solitary life in the hills outside Tikrit. One morning, a grizzled stranger arrives at Mehdi's isolated hut, armed with an AK-47 and looking for food. As the haggard man...Watch Movie
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Battle for Haditha
Iraqi insurgents bomb a convoy of US Marines, resulting in the death of their most popular officer. Enraged by this loss, his young Marine buddies carry out a brutal retaliation. Their violent house-searches lead to the massacre of twenty-four people, many of whom are women...Watch Movie
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Qarantina
A broken family under an incestuous patriarch lives uneasily within the gated courtyard of a dilapidated Baghdad house. The pregnant daughter has fallen silent, finding some protection from the patriarch’s young second wife and his preteen son. Meanwhile, hard up for money, the household must...Watch Movie
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Dream City
In Iraqi Kurdistan, two friends, Emma, a filmmaker from the US, and Diana, a local aspiring actress, make a movie. When they begin Diana is living on her own in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan's buzzing capital city. She is studying to be a flight attendant and enjoying the freedom of being independent...Watch Movie
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Iraq in Fragments
A film about Iraq for those tired of films about Iraq, James Longley's award-winning documentary is a powerful combination of art film and political provocation. Embedded for over two years in three different regions, Longley goes beyond the usual summary-of-problems,...Watch Movie
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Kids Like You and Me
In 2009, the Black Lips started investigating the possibility of a bridge building tour of the Middle East with stops throughout the region. After two years of planning, several uprisings, a civil war the tour finally came to fruition in the fall of 2012. It wasn't easy...Watch Movie
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Nice Bombs
In NICE BOMBS filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly twenty-four years. This documentary navigates through his unique relationship to an Iraq that is much different than the country of his childhood. Usama captures the conflicting reactions to the...Watch Movie
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Kilomètre zéro
A story of ethnic conflict between Kurds and Iraqis in the context of the war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s. The central story of the film is set at a time when Kurds were conscripted to serve in the Iraqi army, where they were brutally abused, as a despised minority in Saddam Hussein's...Watch Movie
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The Corporal's Diary
Twenty-two year old Corporal Jonathan Santos had documented his 37 days of military service in Iraq in a personal diary before a roadside bomb took his life and the lives of several of his friends and servicemen on October 15, 2004. Jonathan's mother, Doris, wasn't aware that...Watch Movie
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Barzan
Sam "Barzan" Malkandi, an Iraqi refugee, was working toward the American Dream when an accusation connecting him to an al-Qaeda operative changed everything. To neighbors, Malkandi was the perfect family man. To investigators, Malkandi was a cold-blooded terrorist. To audiences, Malkandi is a...Watch Movie
