Bombs, war, angry bearded men, shrouded sobbing women, shattered cities: Iraq, as seen through the eyes of the western media these days. These images are juxtaposed with those from the fifties and seventies: films with frivolous music, unveiled women who study; elegantly dressed men in Bagdad, a modern city. How did it come to this? Film director Samir tells the story of his globalised middle-class Iraqi family, scattered between Auckland, Moscow, Paris, London and Buffalo, New York.

2014, 3D documentary feature, 163′, written and directed by Samir, produced by Joël Jent for Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, in coproduction with Coin Film (Germany)

Awards
Best Asian Film Award, Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2014 / 3rd Place Public Award, Berlin Int. Film Festival 2015 / Zurich Film Award 2015

Festivals (a selection)
Toronto Int. Film Festival 2014 / Berlin Int. Film Festival 2015 / Zurich Film Festival 2014 / Festival do Rio de Janeiro 2014 / Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage 2014 / Cairo Int. Film Festival 2015 / New Zealand Int. Film Festival 2015 / Cinema Verité Teheran 2015 / Palm Springs Int. Film Festival 2015 / Jerusalem Film Festival 2015 / Vilnius Int. Film Festival 2015 / Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2015 / Beldocs Int .Documentary Film Festival 2015 / Buenos Aires Festival Int. de Cine Independiente 2015 / Festival Int. de Cine de Gijon 2015 / Portland Int. Film Festival 2016 / Solothurner Filmtage 2015 / Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2014 / Mostra Int. del Cinema de Sao Paulo 2014 / Bergen Int. Film Festival 2015 / Filmfestival Münster 2015 / St-Paul Int. Film Festival 2016 / Int. Filmtage Hof 2019 / fragments – Filmfestival of Human Rights 2016