IRAQ'S INVISIBLE BEAUTY
Documentary | Running Time: 90 minutes
2023 / Arabic and English
Country: Iraq, Belgium and France
Directed by: Sahim Omar Kalifa, Jurgen Buedts
World Premiere
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Jurgen Buedts is a writer, director, producer whose company Las Belgas works with international talent on both high-end films and low-budget arthouse projects. Sahim Omar Kalifa came from Iraqi Kurdistan to Belgium in in 2001 and gained his master’s in film-making in Brussels. He has since won 96 international awards for his short films Land of the Heroes, Baghdad Messi, and Bad Hunter
Jurgen Buedts is a writer, director, producer whose company Las Belgas works with international talent on both high-end films and low-budget arthouse projects. Sahim Omar Kalifa came from Iraqi Kurdistan to Belgium in in 2001 and gained his master’s in film-making in Brussels. He has since won 96 international awards for his short films Land of the Heroes, Baghdad Messi, and Bad Hunter
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Sun 03 Dec | 6:55 PM - 8:30 PM
VOX Cinema 6 Red Sea Mall
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VOX Cinema 6 Red Sea Mall
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Mon 04 Dec | 9:25 PM - 11:00 PM
VOX Cinema 2 Red Sea Mall
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VOX Cinema 2 Red Sea Mall
Price: 40 SAR
ProducerJurgen Buedts
CastLatif Al Ani
ScriptwriterSahim Omar Kalifa, Jurgen Buedts
Latif al-Ani, known as the father of Iraqi photography , began his career taking pictures for the in-house magazine at Iraq Petroleum Company in the ‘50s, recording the emergence of a booming modern Iraq. Now 86, he continued through successive regimes to make images of the country’s exquisite heritage, including many places that have since been destroyed by war. Encouraged in recent years by belated recognition from the West as a major photographer, he travels for this emotional documentary through his tragically ravaged country, seeking out the subjects he once photographed and sharing his unique archive and his stories with the people there now. Many can hardly believe the Iraq he captured really existed.