Reel Festivals
Presenting the Reel Iraq festival – a celebration of film, music and culture from Iraq
Films
Zaman Man from the Reeds
Fri 15 May // 6:25 pm // PG // 76 mins // Filmhouse
Director: Amer Alwan
Open Shutters
Sat 16 May // 1:30 pm // PG // 102 mins // Filmhouse
Director: Maysoon Pachachi
Plus Short: Capturing the War (May Abdalla, UK 2008, 3 min, DVCam)
Underexposure
Sat 16 May // 4:00 pm // PG // 74 mins // Filmhouse
Director: Oday Rasheed
Crossing the Dust
Sat 16 May // 6:00 pm // 12A // 73 mins // Filmhouse
Director: Shawkat Amin Korki
Plus Short: Ali the Iraqi (Vatche Boulghourjian, USA/Lebanon 2008, 22 min, BetaCam)
Battle for Haditha
Sun 17 May // 1:00 pm // 15 // 97 mins // Filmhouse
Director: Nick Broomfield
Turtles Can Fly
Sun 17 May // 4:00 pm // 15 // 97 mins // Filmhouse
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Iraq in Fragments
Sun 17 May // 6:00 pm // 15 // 94 mins // Filmhouse
Director: James Longley
Ahlaam
Mon 18 May // 5:45 pm // 15 // 108 mins // Filmhouse
Director: Mohamed Al- Daradji
Iraq: Song of the Missing Men
Tue 19 May // 6:15 pm // PG // 53 mins // Filmhouse
Director: Layth Abdulamir
Plus Short: Where Is Iraq? (Baz Shamoun, Canada 2004, 20 min, BetaCam)
Life After The Fall
Wed 20 May // 6:00 pm // PG // 100 mins // Filmhouse
Director: Kasim Abid
Independent Film and Television College Baghdad
Thu 21 May // 5:00 pm // 75 mins (4 documentaries) //
Director: Emad Ali, Ahmed Jabbar, Bahram Al Zuhairi, Mounaf Shaker
Forget Baghdad
Thu 21 May // 5:45 pm // PG // 111 mins // Filmhouse
Director: Samir
Plus Short: Twinning Towns (May Abdalla, UK 2008, 3 min, DVCam)
Cameo Double Bill: Meeting Resistance & Full Battle Rattle
Sun 24 May // 1:30 pm // 169 mins (2 films) // Cameo Cinema
Director: Steve Connors, Molly Bingham // Tony Gerber, Jesse Moss