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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Half Moon

    Bittersweet comedy about the impossible bus journey of an old Kurdish musician who travels with his sons to Iraq to give the concert of his…
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  • Crossing the Dust

    Road movie shot in a documentary style about to Kurdish soldiers who have to take food to their comrades along dusty Iraqi roads. On the…
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  • Ahlaam

    Defenceless psychiatric patient threatens to succumb to street violence in Baghdad after the institution where she was staying was destroyed by a bomb
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  • He Who Saw Everything

    A man roams round in war-torn Baghdad. Short film by a young Iraqi film maker.
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  • Death Road

    Short film about the dangers of being a taxi driver in Baghdad, by a young maker from this same city.
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  • One Day in Khadimiya Prison for Women

    To be a woman and a prisoner is not easy in the Middle East. Oday Salah manages to capture the bashful women in this surprising…
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  • War, Love, God & Madness

    Documentary about the making of Ahlaam, the second feature shot in Iraq post-Saddam Hussein. The young idealistic Iraqi film maker Mohamed Al-Daradji
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  • Sandlines

    To understand their present situation, young children from a mountain village near Mosul re-enact the last century of Iraqi history.
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  • The End Will Be Spectacular

    A young woman returns to the city of her birth, where she becomes embroiled in a bitter struggle between young rebels and the Turkish army.
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  • Underexposure

    The cineast Oday Rasheed made a portrait in extreme circumstances of life in Baghdad in the first few days after the fall of Saddam Hussein.…
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