Cinema of Iraq

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The current war in Iraq has been the influence of many films being produced.

Contents 1 Actors 2 Film directors 3 Films 4 Films shot in Iraq 5 Further reading

[edit] Actors

• Shero Rauf
• Heather Raffo
• Lewis Alsamari
• Yasmine Hanani
• Najeen
• Qasim Al-Mallak

[edit] Film directors

• Abbas Fahdel
• Najeen
• Shero Rauf

[edit] Films

List of Iraqi films

[edit] Films shot in Iraq

• Back to Babylon (film)
• We Iraqis
• The Exorcist (1973)- Hatra was used as the setting for the opening scene.
• ZAMAN,the man who lives in the reeds (2003) A feature film by Amer Alwan

• The War Tapes (2003)
• About Baghdad (2003)- A documentary film shot in Baghdad, Iraq.
• Ahlaam (2004) - A feature film by Mohamed Al Daradji, which was Iraq's 2007 Oscar entry.
• Voices of Iraq (2004)
• Gunner Palace (2005)
• Valley of the Wolves Iraq (2006)- The movie is set in northern Iraq during the Occupation of Iraq.
• Iraq in Fragments (2006)- Documentary film on the Iraq War.
• My Country, My Country (2006)

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[edit] Further reading

• Guardian article on history of Iraqi cinema http://film.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,4558601-103550,00.html