Baghdad Film School: Baghdad Days

Excerpts from films shot between the end of 2004 and October 2005 by students of the Independent Film and Television College in Baghdad. The college, the first of its kind in Iraq, charges no tuition fees and is funded by international charities (including the Open Society Foundations), trade unions, and private donations.

Baghdad Days
Directed by Hiba Bassem, 2005

Hiba Bassem, a young woman from Kirkuk, returns to Baghdad after the war, to finish her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts. The film is a diary of her year as she tries to find a place to live, looks for work, graduates from college, deals with family problems and struggles to come to terms with her position as a woman on her own. This film won a New Horizon silver award at the Al Jazeera International Film Festival in Doha (2006) and a golden award at the Rotterdam Arab Film Festival (2006).

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