Reel Iraq Festival On Tour
Thursday 4 June to Thursday 2 July 2009
After decades of conflict and the trauma of occupation, Iraq faces an uncertain future. We host two screenings which reveal the complexity of life in Iraq, a view a million miles from the sensationalist and momentary snapshots we get from the mainstream news.
Other films in the season:
Thursday 4 June 2009
Iraq In Fragments (2006)
7:30 p.m.
"... a one-man production of startling audacity and aesthetic provocation. ... if Longley's astonishing feat of poetic agitation has a precedent in the entire history of documentary, I'm not aware of it."
-- Rob Nelson, The Village Voice
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Thursday 2 July 2009
Ahlaam (2005)
7:30 p.m.
The second in our Reel Iraq season: In 2003 Al-Daradji, after the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein, travelled back to his homeland. There he found heartbreaking chaos with countless psychiatric patients.
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