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I'm learning in Baghdad two thousand
three and four it was not any government
no any foundation of exist just the
American tanks on the street
and we were with our cameras in our crew
they were hair you know and all of that
and I think people soon what he do it
did I will make it film what kind of
film it's for Al Jazeera or for the CLS
I said no no it's for a polychrome
fiction or funny somewhere some people
they said porno imagine in this in this
chaos but we we felt like we are part of
this country and our voice need to be
here
Oh our films comes from this place he's
got to to Iraqi film and dependence or
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independent so you know it's like before
the war with Saddam regime the cinema it
was like propaganda cinema for Saddam
regime and we have more freedom here
right now after the war we can do
whatever we want
when we came in this place we find the
Iraqi army are here we call them please
guys we are a filmmaker we need to take
this place and this place it's very
important for us let's go to our series
here
I meant I enjoy it step lightly at had
Mahalo second attire basijis of the
commercial I'll have you tomalak me it's
okay to give them action okay when we
started we felt you know what we are
doing something for Iraq for the history
and for our self and for the future of
Iraq and we would like really young
crazy and we felt it like it with us
there is no a proper industry in Iraq we
carry the industry we started to the
cinema in 2003 when we start we start to
make alaria films and then neorealistic
italian cinema with thought about what
is on the street how can we create from
it the story that we want to tell
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between the fiction and reality in Iraq
is a thin line we can across at any
moment like son of Babylon it was a
fiction it was based in two story the
main character she used to be in the
prison and she's also the victim of
Saddam regime and she was one of the
witness against Saddam Husein in his
court
about unity arsenic and gallium it's
certain that was a moment for her she
lost it and she lost where she is
basically because she saw this skillet
like her husband and then I stopped the
filming and I came and I sit next to her
and I saw her and I couldn't continue I
was also emotional and all the crew and
the people are they were so emotional
this is my room probably this will be my
first feature film in Iraq as a
filmmaker I studied in a new film
academy in Hawaii it was a very good
experience for me they learned me how to
make the phone even if you don't have a
money you have a lot budget if you have
no nothing I said come on Yaya what are
you doing there you you go there to
learn in the experience and you should
carry me back in your country to make a
film and that's why I'm came here back
to Iraq to learning the people the young
filmmakers how we can do the folks here
in this balloon we need to learn the
people the basic cinema we don't ask
what do you guys come from what about
your religion whatever have love love
love we don't care about that we just
like came here to make a movies actually
we were the first people making films
after 15 years and we did not have a
lonely time a normal equipment we'd have
only one camera 35 million
we brought the film stock from Europe
and one time the camera wasn't broken so
we could not fix it I took it and I went
to Syria to fix it in Syria and I
developed the material in and in Beirut
let's go I'm gonna guys and introduce
you to a very important guy
important the filmmaker here he just get
the crystal the crystal bar from it from
Berlin International Film Festival 2015
just last last week his name Salaam when
you have nothing the equipment or
everything they may be effective you in
positive way so it made me to insist to
make a good thing and show all the
people what you can do here was zero
budget is very important to show the
people the story the story story and the
performance of doctors
having non-professional actors they are
difficult complicated to work with them
but what's good they give you the
natural that you are looking for it in
the style that I am used in my films so
it's more realistic more close to the
people so we have idea other Raji is the
producer of all our films platypuses del
Miyata process now Alicia Hawaii
American women macabre Gemma a year to
father electoral farinata Jamil about an
event or a development - in my chakra
nozzle in our thought process it seems
that you're not afraid of subjects that
might be controversial we are an
independent broad and came from war area
and he'd like shoot the people what the
Saddam did was thwarted Iraq also I'm
going to shoot the victim from the war
we never ever scared from the terrorists
and we were fighting them actually
al-qaeda and also we were putting in the
prison by the American four five six six
days accusing us that we are doing
propaganda film for al-qaeda imagine two
times when the American helicopter is
about to shoot us you know we had a lot
of scenes that happen with us and by the
way we make a film called Iraq war
garden love madness was a release in the
US and the films about what happened
with us during the shooting of our first
feature film
to live in Iraq is not it's not that
healthy but we enjoyed is part of our
life so this is our Park Oni but they
have no visitation someone here has an
idea I think would make a great film
they have to pitch it to everybody else
first
we tested yeah of course that's what I
learned them from us
Yasser you get a bitching Jesus story
he's talking about the women
she got Bragman from Isis man and she go
back to her family and they got shocked
because they they got confused maybe
they're gonna killed her or kill the
baby we don't know so in the phone we're
gonna know it
MRI to read in her father a larger
meaning her mean why didn't levy you
read Utley abdomen Noreen I'm sorry
insulin is easy to read in her father a
legend in the world of a lot of
psychology problem in the people if you
go to any house in Iraq they have a
problem
rich poor wherever we have a home I
don't know from where but we have a hope
and I believe Iraq is a good culture to
invest here we can build Iraq yes is
very difficult it's not easy but there
is something here it's a magic and I
think there is a future for us this is
what of the moment you have it in your
history and you need to be part of it I
think that's how I try to fiction the
way to myself you know basically
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