DirectorDir: James Longley 2006 USA/Iraq 94 mins Subtitled

screenings from:
Fri 23 Feb - Thu 01 Mar

Longley’s award-winning documentary reveals the Iraq we don't see in the
news, viewed through the eyes of Sunnis, Shi’ites and Kurds. Drawn from
over 300 hours of guerrilla reportage, shot on the ground over a two
year period, the film is divided into three portraits of ordinary Iraqi
citizens – a young Sunni car mechanic apprentice in Baghdad, a group of
Muqtada al-Sadr supporters in the Shi’ite south and a farming family in
the Kurdish north – as they struggle through a chaotic present and face
an uncertain future. Insightful, boldly stylised and poetically
rendered, this is a tour-de-force of impressionistic filmmaking which
manages to humanise the conflict and its aftermath.

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