About Baghdad (2003)

Synopsis: The combined effort of a team of artists, filmmakers, and poets, this creative and touching documentary follows exiled poet Sinan Antoon as he travels around his native home of Baghdad in July... The combined effort of a team of artists, filmmakers, and poets, this creative and touching documentary follows exiled poet Sinan Antoon as he travels around his native home of Baghdad in July 2003. Sinan (and his filmmaker companions) visit a vastly diverse selection of people and places during the wake of the city's disaster. ABOUT BAGHDAD'S subjects speak volumes on what it's like to live in a place ravaged (for decades) by war, sanctions, oppressive rulership, and trauma. Viewers of this documentary will walk away with a deepened understanding of Baghdad and its proud inhabitants. [More]