Film: About Baghdad
by Sinan Antoon
Documentary, USA, 2004, 90 min
Guest: Sinan Antoon
(New York University / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2016/2017)
Synopsis:
About Baghdad is the first film made about Iraq after the fall of the Ba'ath regime in July 2003. It is also perhaps the first effort to privilege the voices of the Iraqi people, from all walks of life as well as social, economic and ethnic backgrounds. About Baghdad presents Iraqis who describe the pain, complexity and suffering of living under decades of tyranny, oppression, wars, sanctions and now occupation. Silenced for so long by a regime that sought to replace the people with the image of just one man, and re-silenced by the bombs and occupation forces, the Iraqi people long to speak out and to claim their future.