Title: Boy of Baghdad
Authors: Ly, Matthew.; Al-Moswi, Sabah.; Award Films (Firm)
Publisher: Award Films International,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Children Iraq Baghdad.; Poverty Iraq Baghdad.; Children and war; Baghdad (Iraq) Social conditions.
Abstract: An unprecedented look at life inside post-war Iraq, all from the unique perspective of a precocious twelve-year-old boy. Doe-eyed and adorable Kheer Allah with his mother, father, two brothers and sister live in an empty house where they earn their rent by guarding it and doing repairs for the owner. Young Kheer Allah must work every day to help his family survive. This daily struggle forms the heart of this remarkable film. Through the wind-swept and war-ravaged streets of his neighborhood, Kheer Allah parlays his abundant charm into a variety of odd jobs that bring little money, but much satisfaction to his ever-smiling face. This is the heartbreaking, and very real, story of a remarkable boy forced to grow up much too quickly, in a dangerous world gone mad with politics and fanaticism. One that has sadly ignored its most vulnerable citizens, its children.