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Iraq In Fragments

Type:
Documentary

Director:
James Longley

Year:
2006

Time:
94 minutes

Produced by:
John Sinno & James Longley

Edited by:
Fiona Otway, Billy McMillin, James Longley

Language:
Arabic/Kurdish with English, French subtitles

 

Academy Award Nominee
Best Documentary

Winner! Best Director, Best Cinematography & Best Editing
Sundance Film Festival

Winner! Best Documentary
Gotham Awards

Winner! Best Documentary
IDA Awards

"...if Longley's astonishing feat of poetic agitation has a precedent in the
entire history of documentary, I'm not aware of it." - Rob Nelson, The Village Voice

 
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INSTITUTIONAL DVD COPIES STILL AVAILABLE: DVD IS OUT OF PRINT, BUT WE STILL HAVE A FEW RARE HOME DVD COPIES, BLU-RAY STILL AVAILABLE.
An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied.

American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. Winner of Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing awards in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival documentary competition, the film was also awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, was named Best Documentary at the Chicago International Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2007 Academy Awards.

Please Note: Special Features are different for DVD and Blu-ray discs

DVD Special Features

  • Interview with Director
  • Dolby Digital 5.1

    Blu-ray Special Features
  • Feature length audio commentary by Director
  • Dolby Digital 5.1

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