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IRAQ, MY COUNTRY
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Hadi Mahood
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| An Iraqi/Australian filmmaker Hadi Mahood travels
back to Iraq for the first time in 13 years, documenting his
country in the year following the ousting of Saddam Hussein.
Ahmed, a 12 years old, who lost his job as a worker in reinforced
concrete and is a bullet seller now, leads him to the main details
of the city, for instance, the torture rooms in the intelligence
office and the jails of the coalition forces as well. Further
more the director tries himself to film the bombed car explosion,
but he was beaten by the Iraqi police and they dash his camera
into pieces. Hadi focuses also on political chaos and adminstrative
corruption and uncovers the reality of the new Iraq - as his
country struggles towards freedom, democracy and economic welfare.
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Screenplay Hadi Mahood
Photography (colour) Zaiad Turky
Editing Ken Sallows A.S.E.
Production Philippa Campey, Film Camp Pty Ltd
Year of production 2005
Running time 52'
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Hadi Mahood
Hadi Mahood was born in Samawa, in southern Iraq. He studied film direction at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad and at Baghdad University. He made several films in Iraq in the 1980s, including The Bird Seller and Al-Muhamra. Between 1988 and 1990, he worked as an assistant director in the Department of Film Production at Baghdad Television. In 1990 Hadi wrote and directed The Drowned, a documentary based on confidential information from the Iraqi police files. In 1991, he fled persecution in Iraq and worked with the Iraqi Opposition radio in Saudi Arabia. In 1997 in Australia he directed a stage play entitled Night Traveller and two documentaries. He also worked at the Arabic Broadcasting service.
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