Our River... Our Sky

  • Drama
  • War
7/6/2023
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In a typically mixed Baghdadi neighbourhood in 2006, a community of ordinary people try to live their everyday lives amidst the threat of unpredictable violence. At the heart of these intersecting stories we find Sara, a single mother and novelist, who regains her will to write after witnessing the forced exile of her Christian neighbour and best friend Sabiha. With the news of Saddam Hussein's sudden execution shortly before the New Year, Sara and her neighbours brace themselves for an uncertain future. Yet, like a miracle, each is able to sustain a fragile sense of hope.

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  • Geronimo1967

    "Sara" (Darina Al Joundi) is a frustrated writer who lives with her young daughter "Reema" (Zainab Joda) in Baghdad in 2006. To put it mildly, it's a war zone. The Allies have only recently removed Saddam Hussein and the city is in chaos. Sunni and Shia mistrust, local warlords and racketeering make Al Capone look like Mother Theresa. "Sara" is sort of resigned to this existence until her close friend "Sabiha" (Badia Obaid), who happens to be a Christian, is forced out of their community and somehow that seems to galvanise her. She regains a little of her mojo and determines to write again. Can she sustain that new-found enthusiasm as the bombs land ever closer to their home or, perish the thought, might escape from the only place either of...

    October 21, 2023

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