It is estimated that four to five million Iraqis live outside Iraq today. Filmmaker Samir was born in Baghdad and lives in Switzerland since he was child, while members of his family are scattered over the world. Recounting his family's stories of departures and uprootings, he chronicles how Iraqis' dreams of building a modern and just society after their independence in the 1950s were brutally dashed: from the British colonialism to coups and counter-coups, from Saddam Hussein's dictatorship to his deposition by US invasion, and the iconic image of his statue being toppled. Toronto 2014.
Samir
Nasceu em 1955 em Bagdá, e foi criado na Suíça. Dirigiu curtas, filmes para a TV, documentários e longas, incluindo Babylon 2 (Locarno 1993), Fillou (Locarno 1998), Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection (2002), prêmio da Semana da Crítica no Festival de Locarno, e Snow White (2005), exibido nos festivais de Berlim e Locarno.
