Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection
March 03, 2023
Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection is a 2002 documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq. It was written and directed by Samir, an Iraqi born in Baghdad in 1955 and living since 1961 in Switzerland.
Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection
The film's music is by Rabih Abou-Khalil. It was produced by Karin Koch and Samir and edited by Nina Schneider and Samir. The directors of photography were Nurith Aviv and Philippe Bellaiche.
The film was a coproduction between TagTraum Cologne, Gerd Haag, SF DRS, Teleclub, and Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion. It is 112 minutes in length.
The DVD, which is distributed by Arab Film Distribution, comes with a 30-minute "Making of the film" featurette. The DVD has multiple audio tracks and subtitles in English, German, French, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish.
Grainy video and gimmicky editing give this documentary an amateurish feel, but Samir's charming, rueful interlocutors shine through. – Anya Kamenetz, Village Voice, December 2, 2003[2]
Samir's presentation is uninspired and too long. It's outdated, too. – V.A. Musetto, New York Post, December 5, 2003[3]
Explores identity, but words get in the way. – Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post, April 16, 2004[4]
Timely and thought-provoking, if a bit rambling. – Deborah Young, Variety, December 23, 2003[5]
Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection at IMDb
Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection at Rotten Tomatoes
References
^Forget Baghdad (2002) – Film Review; Born in Iraq, Living in Israel, Pondering Issues of Identity, by Stephen Holden, 12/5/03, at the New York Times web (nytimes.com)
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