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Don't miss these award-winning documentaries at the 2006 Seattle Arab & Iranian
Film Festival! For more info and tickets: www.saiff.com

IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS
Opening Night Film - Seattle Premiere!

Documentary, Iraq, 2006, 94 min., 35mm
James Longley

Friday, March 31 at 7:00 pm, Cinerama
Sponsored by GreenCine

Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing – Documentary Film
Category, Sundance Film Festival

At once expansive and intimate, harrowing and transcendent, James Longley's
(Gaza Strip) second feature documentary follows ordinary Iraqi citizens from the
Shiite south to the Kurdish north as they struggle through a chaotic present and
face a distant, uncertain future. In old Baghdad, buildings burn, U.S. tanks
patrol, and an 11-year-old mechanic scurries amid the rubble to please his
intimidating boss as neighborhood men indict the Americans. Then, guided by a
young leader in Moqtada Sadr's Shiite revolutionary movement, we proceed south,
where political arguments ricochet across cafés and meeting halls, and
young Shiite men hit the streets to enforce religious laws and stage an
anti-U.S. uprising. In the northern Kurdish countryside, a farmer, grateful to
America for eradicating Saddam, ruminates on the future of his family and people
while his son tirelessly tends sheep and dreams
of becoming a doctor. Culled from 300 hours of footage taken over a two year
period, these indelible portraits, painted with vérité immediacy,
humanize characters and illuminate the textures and tensions of a country
wrenched by occupation and pulled in disparate directions by religion and
ethnicity.

In Arabic & Kurdish w/ English subtitles

Official Film Website:
http://www.iraqinfragments.com/

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