Homeland (Iraq Year Zero), by Abbas Fahdel (Iraq, France, 2015, 334 min.) Documentary
Part I - Before The Fall (160 min.)
Part II – After the Battle (174 min.)

Plot summary: Iraqi director Abbas Fahdel uses his camera to film his family for 17 months in a documentary divided into two parts (before and after the attack), showing us their everyday life interrupted by the horror of the  Iraq War. The documentary tells the story of several inhabitants of Baghdad before and after the American occupation. The first part, titled Before the Fall, ends when the American army enters the city of Baghdad. In the second part, After the Battle the American army invades Iraq, and  we are shown the consequences in the everyday lives of the film’s characters.

Awards and Festivals: Best documentary (Carthage Film Festival, Tunisia, 2015); Best feature film and Special Jury Award (Visions du Réel Festival, Nyon, France, 2015);
 Special Award (Locarno Film Festival, 2015); Audience Award (Montreal International Documentary Film Festival, 2015); Special Prize (Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan, 2015); Best Film (IBAFF, Ibn Arabi International Film Festival of Murcia, 2016); Human Rights Award (DOKUFEST, International Short-subject and Documentary Film Festival, Kosovo, 2016).

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Foreign Body  [Jassad Gharib], by Raja Amari
(Tunisia, France, 2016, 92 min.) Fiction

Plot summary: Sama illegally immigrates to France after the revolution in Tunisia. Obsessed with the idea that her brother, an Islamic extremist, might be spying on her, she finds refuge at the home of Imed, an acquaintance from her home village, and in Leila, a mysterious woman who offers her a job as a maid.

Cast: Hiam Abbass, Sarra Hannachi, Salim Kechiouche, Marc Brunet, Majid Mastoura.
Awards and Festivals: Toronto Film Festival, 2016; Dubai International Film Festival, 2016;  Berlin Film Festival, 2017; Atlántida, the Palma de Mallorca Film Festival, 2017;  Busan, South Korea Film Festival, 2017; Award for Best Screenplay (RiverRun Festival, North Carolina, 2017). 

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The Blessed [Les bienheureux], by Sofía Djama
(France, Belgium, Qatar, 2017, 102 min.) Fiction

Plot summary: In Algiers, a few years after the civil war, Amal and Samir are about to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary at a restaurant. On the way there, they both look back at their country’s past: Amal sees hopes and dreams lost, whereas Samir sees it as a country where they can live in comfort. Meanwhile, Fahim, their son, walks aimlessly through Algiers along with his friends Feriel and Reda, as the city closes in on itself.

Cast: Salima Abada, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Adam Bessa, Sami Bouajila, Nadia Kaci, Lyna Khoudri, Amine Lansari

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Razzia, by Nabil Ayouch (France, Morocco and Belgium. 2017, 119 min.) Fiction
Casablanca, Morocco: vibrant and rough, lovely but relentless. Four people who do not know each other but share a common yearning for freedom chase their hopes and dreams thirty years after a passionate schoolteacher from the Atlas Mountains is forced to give up his own language...

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