OUR RIVER...OUR SKY
FEATURE FILMS COMPETITION
OUR RIVER...OUR SKY
IRAK
DRAMA
- Duration : 117 Minutes
- Genre : Drama
- Director : Maysoon Pachachi
- Starring :Darina Al Joundi, Zainab Joda, Basim Hajar, Labwa Arab, Amed Hashimi, Meriam Abbas, Mahmoud Abo Al Abbas
- Production : Oxymoron Films
Synopsis
SARA is a single mother and novelist, shocked into silence, at a time of extreme sectarian violence and nightly curfews in Baghdad. She and her neighbours let us into their everyday lives, as they struggle to resist the fragmentation of their world and renew a fragile sense of hope and belief in a better future
Director's bio
Maysoon Pachachi is a London-based filmmaker of Iraqi origin. In 2004 she co-founded a free film training centre in Baghdad. Since setting up her production company, Oxymoron Films, in 1994, she has made independent feature documentary films, focusing on the lives of women in the middle east.
OUR RIVER…OUR SKY is her first narrative feature film as director.