Dedicated to the events of 2006 in Iraq, “Our River… Our Sky” – previously known as “Another Day in Baghdad” – shows people who suddenly don’t recognize their own country anymore. Trying to carry on with their normal routines, they are “acting life,” says director Maysoon Pachachi. As the conflict in Afghanistan rages on, the world premiere – in the Sarajevo Film Festival’s Dealing with the Past section – of her first fiction feature seems timely.
“I have been watching the news just like everybody else, trying to make sense of it. Somebody asked me the other day if I planned for my film to come out this way. Obviously, I didn’t know this was going to happen,” she says, describing 2006 as the year of “uncertainty and fear,” starting with an attack on a Shia shrine orchestrated by Al-Qaeda.
“It ignited the most extraordinary violence. People were looking in the mirror, thinking: ‘Is this us?...
“I have been watching the news just like everybody else, trying to make sense of it. Somebody asked me the other day if I planned for my film to come out this way. Obviously, I didn’t know this was going to happen,” she says, describing 2006 as the year of “uncertainty and fear,” starting with an attack on a Shia shrine orchestrated by Al-Qaeda.
“It ignited the most extraordinary violence. People were looking in the mirror, thinking: ‘Is this us?...
- 8/20/2021
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
The first ever internationally coproduced feature film co-written and directed by Iraqi women is set to have its World Premiere at Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina in a special program section entitled Dealing with the Past.
Our River…Our Sky (Arabic title: Kalshi Mako) is the narrative feature debut of Maysoon Pachachi, a London-based filmmaker of Iraqi origin. The script was co-written with Irada Al-Jubori, a Baghdad-based writer, journalist and professor of media studies at Baghdad University.
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Our River…Our Sky (Arabic title: Kalshi Mako) is the narrative feature debut of Maysoon Pachachi, a London-based filmmaker of Iraqi origin. The script was co-written with Irada Al-Jubori, a Baghdad-based writer, journalist and professor of media studies at Baghdad University.
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- 8/12/2021
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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