Meeting Resistance (2007)

Directed by

Molly Bingham

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film lets anonymous Iraqi insurgents in Baghdad speak about their reasons for fighting. Each person is identified only by a nickname, and the camera often keeps them in shadow or out of focus. The movie gives a rare view of the resistance from their own perspective.

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What happens

Meeting Resistance is a 2007 documentary film about the Iraq War. The film presents the views of eleven Iraqi resistance fighters in the Adhamiyah neighborhood of Baghdad. The film was directed by journalists Molly Bingham (United States) and Steve Connors (UK). The interviewees are all anonymous and (with one exception) faceless or out-of-focus on camera. They are presented as nicknames: The Teacher, The Warrior, The Traveler, The Imam, The Wife, The Syrian, The Fugitive, The Local, The Republican Guard, The Lieutenant, and The Professor. The US military currently organizes showings for its forces in Iraq so they can know who they are fighting. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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