Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection (2002)

Original title

Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection

Directed by

Samir

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany, Switzerland

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

12+

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows five Iraqi Jews living in exile who share memories of their homeland. The director speaks with them about their lives before and after leaving Iraq.

contemplativeintimatepersonalhistoricalinterview-drivennostalgiclayeredpoignant

What happens

Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection is a 2002 documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq. It was written and directed by Samir, an Iraqi born in Baghdad in 1955 and living since 1961 in Switzerland. The film focuses on five expatriate Iraqi Jews, most living in Israel: Shimon Ballas, Moshe (Moussa) Houri, Sami Michael, Samir Naqqash, and Ella Habiba Shohat. The film's music is by Rabih Abou-Khalil. It was produced by Karin Koch and Samir and edited by Nina Schneider and Samir. The directors of photography were Nurith Aviv and Philippe Bellaiche. The film was a coproduction between TagTraum Cologne, Gerd Haag, SF DRS, Teleclub, and Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion. It is 112 minutes in length. The DVD, which is distributed by Arab Film Distribution, comes with a 30-minute "Making of the film" featurette. The DVD has multiple audio tracks and subtitles in English, German, French, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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