uploaded by: Hadi Mahood
filmmaker: Hadi Mahood
about the film:
Hadi Mahood fled persecution in Iraq in 1991 and settled in Melbourne, Australia. He was in exile for fourteen years. In the tumultuous months between the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime and the installation of a new government, Hadi journeys back to his home town of Samawa in southern Iraq. He documents the violence and volatility of a city in chaos, a city left in a vacuum of power. We see the new Iraq through the eyes of Samawa's citizens. Such as 15 year-old Ahmed, a boy forced to trade bullets in the local weapons market and Magid, the locally-renown "wise fool" of Samawa.
Country: Iraq/Australia
Production: Film Camp Pty Ltd - Philippa Campey
Year: 2005
Director: Hadi Mahood
Cinematography: Zaiad Turky
Editing: Ken Sallows
DigitalBetacam – couleur – 52 mn
