Shadow in Baghdad (2013)

Original title

צל בבגדד

Directed by

Duki Dror

Genre

documentary film

Country

Israel

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Israeli woman who fled Iraq in the 1970s works with a young Iraqi journalist to investigate what happened to her father after she left. The story unfolds across Israel, Iraq and Jordan.

melancholicreflectivepersonalinvestigativeintimateslow-burnpoignantmeditative

What happens

Shadow in Baghdad is a 2013 documentary film directed by Duki Dror. The film chronicles the story of Linda Abdul Aziz Menuhin, an Israeli citizen who fled her native Iraq in the 1970s, and her connection with a young Iraqi journalist who reaches out to her in an effort to help her trace the disappearance of her father in Iraq shortly after she fled the country. The film takes place between Israel, Iraq and Jordan. The film was first released in Haifa Film Festival and was one of the reasons that led to the rise of public interest in Israel and around world, in the story of the disappearance of Jews from Arab lands. The film was screened in the US Library of Congress in Washington with the opening of the exhibition of the Iraqi Jewish Archive in the National Archive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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