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DESCRIPTION:Special benefit screening for the SF Bay Area Independent Media Center  
 http://www.indybay.org  ***ABOUT BAGHDAD***  Sunday November 21st  7:30 pm  
 $5-10 donation  @ Station 40  3030b 16th St (& Mission), directly across 
 from 16th & Mission BART station  An independent film by InCounter 
 Productions (Spring 2004)  In July 2003 Sinan Antoon, an exiled Iraqi 
 writer and poet, returned to  Baghdad to see what has become of his city 
 after wars, sanctions, decades  of oppression and violence, and now 
 occupation. Antoon takes us on a  journey exploring what Iraqis think and 
 feel about the post-war situation  and the complex relationship between the 
 US and Iraq.  About Baghdad is a journey into the hearts and minds of the 
 hundreds of  Iraqis we encountered in Baghdad. In the simmering heat of 
 Baghdad’s  summer, Iraqis, of various ethnic and political backgrounds 
 and  orientations, speak of past horrors and present fears.  Reflections on 
 the traumatic legacy of dictatorship, sanctions and war, also  reflect the 
 resilience and humanity of a people who were, for decades,  dehumanized and 
 disappeared behind Saddam’s image. From poets to  politicians, cabbies to 
 communists, a retired senior citizen to an American  soldier at Bremmer’s 
 headquarters, "About Baghdad" navigates the dire, and  often misunderstood 
 and misrepresented, straits separating, yet involving,  both Iraqis and 
 Americans.  Amy Goodman interviews the filmmakers:  
 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/25/1423211  Review from 
 the Daily Star:  
 http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_ID=10&article_ID=5739&categ_id=4 
  Festivals:  Official Selection, San Diego International Film Festival (San 
 Diego, CA)  Official Selection, Montreal World Film Festival  (Montreal, 
 Canada)  Official Selection, Cinema East Film Series (New York, NY)  
 Official Selection, RebelFest Film Festival (Toronto)  Official Selection, 
 Festival do Rio 2004 (Rio de Janeiro)  Official Selection, Calgary 
 International Film Festival (Calgary, Canada)  Official Selection, 
 Cinemayaat, The Arab Film Festival (San Francisco, CA)  Official Selection, 
 Northern Lights Documentary Film Festival  (Newburyport,MA)  Official 
 Selection, Mount Shasta International Film Festival (Mount Shasta,  CA)  
 Official Selection, Vermont International Film Festival (Burlington, VT)  
 Official Selection, Arabian Sights Film Festival (Washington, DC)  Official 
 Selection, Northampton Independent Film Festival (Northampton, MA)  
 Official Selection, International Film Festival of Human Rights of Spain  
 (Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao, Girona & Viranoz)  Official Selection, Leeds 
 International Film Festival (Leeds, United  Kingdom)  Official Selection, 
 Middle East Studies Association Film Festival  (San  Francisco, CA)  
 Official Selection, Docudays Film Festival (Beirut, Lebanon)  Official 
 Selection, Detroit Docs Film Festival (Detroit, MI)\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/11/11/51843.php
SUMMARY:Film: ***ABOUT BAGHDAD***
LOCATION:@ Station 40  3030b 16th St (& Mission), directly across from 16th & 
 Mission BART station  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/11/11/51843.php
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