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Oday Rasheed
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| This is the first film shot in Baghdad after
the fall of Saddam Hussein, made with the help of many friends
and volunteers and with scarcely any budget. Underexposure,
whose title refers to the outdated film stock used to make the
film, as to the generations of Iraqis isolated from the world
for decades, takes an unprecedented, uncensored look into the
life of those living in Iraq during the tumultuous days after
SaddamŠs fall. The past is only a moment behind them and the
presence of death is a constant companion into the future. Maysoun
is a woman who finds solace in her sexuality; Hassan finds comfort
in the belief that his films will outlive the cancer taking
over his body. Homeless and alone with only his sacks of brightly
colored rags, Nassir experiences his first taste of companionship
and responsibility with the discovery of a dying Iraqi soldier.
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Screenplay Oday Rasheed, Faris Haram, Heydar Helo
Photography (colour) Ziyad Turkey
Editing Antje Zynga
Music Abdel Khalid
ICast Yousif Al-Ani, Samar Qahtan, Awatif Nayeem, Shahrazad Shakir, Suha Salim, Basim Hamad, Basim Mohammed
Production FilmIraq , Furat al Jamil , Enlil Film , Majed
Rasheed , X-Filme Creative Pool , Maria Köpf
Year of production 2005
Running time 74'
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Oday Rasheed
Oday Rasheed was born in 1973. He finished secondary school in Baghdad at the end of the Second Gulf War in 1991 and joined the Institute for Electrical Science and after it the Institute for Applicable Art. In 1998, he was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in the Film Department but didnŠt stay long because of the deteriorated standard of the Department caused by the embargo and the rules of the former regime. In the 90s he dedicated himself to produce independently experimental movies on video. After the last war in Iraq and the US he decided to work actively in the development and the renaissance of the Iraqi cinema starting with a film produced immediately after the war: Underexposure.
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