BACK TO BABYLONE

  • Abbas Fadhel
  • Documentary
  • 2002
  • 51 min

Back after twenty-five years of exile in his home country, Irak, and in his home town Babylone ; the director asks himself : « What has become of my old friends ? What has life done to them here ? What would have life done with me if I hadn’t chosen to follow abroad the young flow of my destiny?… » Through this quest-investigation in his home town and meetings with his old friends, it’s the whole situation of Irak, and the everyday life of its population, that slowly transpires: the scars left by the war with Iran and the Gulf war, tragic consequences of the embargo imposed by the United Nations…

Production
  • Agat Films
  • Blanche Guichou
Coproduction
  • LA 5
Distribution Doc & Films International
International seller Doc & Films International

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