- Back to Babylon (film)
Infobox Film
name = Back to Babylon
director =Abbas Fahdel
producer = Agat Films & CieFrance 5
music = Sami Kaftan
cinematography =Abbas Fahdel Amer Alwan
editing = Sylvie Gadmer
distributor = Doc & Co
released = 2002
runtime = 52 min
language = Arabic
country = FRA IRQ
imdb_id =1256537
website = http://agatfilms.mediactive.fr/agatfilms/FMPro?-db=agatfilms.fp5&-format=catalogue-fiche-film-anglais.htm&-lay=ficheuk&-sortfield=nom%20film&Parution%20Catalogue=oui&-max=600&-recid=45378&-find= |"Back to Babylon" (2002) is a documentary film directed by the
Iraq i-French film directorAbbas Fahdel .
* French title: "Retour à Babylone"
* Arabic title: العودة إلى بابلynopsis
Back in his home town of
Babylon after 25 years of exile, the Iraqi-born directorAbbas Fahdel asks himself: "What has become of my friends? What has life here made of them? What would life here have made of me had I not decided to follow the course of destiny elsewhere"?" In his search and inquiries, his encounters with the friends of his youth, it is the situation today in Iraq that is revealed through the camera's eye: the ravages ofSaddam Hussein 's dictatorship, the after-effects of theIran-Iraq war , theGulf war and theembargo imposed by theUnited Nations .Quotes
“"By allowing destiny to take me elsewhere, I escaped the years of war and poverty that hit the country. After 25 years of exile, haunted by the guilt often felt by survivors, I returned to Iraq to make peace with that part of myself that remained forever attached to my homeland".” Abbas Fahdel, in "Back to Babylon".
ee also
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Cinema of Iraq
*Iraqi culture External links
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* [http://agatfilms.mediactive.fr/agatfilms/FMPro?-db=agatfilms.fp5&-format=catalogue-fiche-film-anglais.htm&-lay=ficheuk&-sortfield=nom%20film&Parution%20Catalogue=oui&-max=600&-recid=45378&-find= Official website] en
* [http://www.fipa.tm.fr/programmes/en?2003fip_07640 "Back to Babylon"] at the International Festival of Audiovisual Programs en
* [http://www.cinemotions.com/modules/Films/fiche/41981/Retour-a-Babylone/photos.html Photos gallery]
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