Dr Nabil; Meeting Resistance
ONE SHORT AND ONE FEATURE (84min)
Venue: The British Museum – BP Theatre
Dr Nabil
Director: Ahmed Jabbar, 2007, Iraq, 15min
UK Première
This short film was made under very difficult circumstances by a student at the Independent Film and Television college in Baghdad. It focuses on Dr Nabil, a gentle and committed surgeon who is also a writer and works at a small, under-staffed Baghdad hospital, doing what he can with little equipment and few medicines. While many other doctors have been killed or fled the country in fear, Dr Nabil has decided to stay, though he worries how the atmosphere of violence and brutality in Iraq will affect his young son.
A simple film reflecting the complicated mixture of fear, distrust and hope that many Iraqis feel about their lives and their country.
Followed by the UK Première of
Meeting Resistance
Director: Steve Connors, Molly Bingham, 2007, USA, 84min
Golden Award winner at the Al Jazeera International Film Festival.
The so-called Iraqi insurgency is often portrayed as a battle being fought by a dwindling band of Saddam Hussein loyalists. The directors spent 10 months secretly interviewing insurgents in Baghdad and found a very different story. Some Shiite, some Sunni, some ethnically mixed, some loyal to Saddam though most not – all express a very simple desire. They want their country back.
This is the unbroadcast story of the Iraq conflict, filmed with unprecedented access to the combatants.
“A remarkable piece of war reporting” The Washington Post
Followed by a discussion with the directors Steve Connors and Molly Bingham.
This film is presented by The London Review of Books
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