Query: Films shot in Iraq, but not about Iraq war
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
Dreams (2006 film)
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero
Back to Babylon (film)
Requiem of Snow
Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
Notturno (film)
Clash of Loyalties
Al-ayyam al-tawila
Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture
Once Upon a Time in Mesopotamia
Jani Gal
A Step into the Darkness
Evidence from documents: Dreams (2006 film): The final shot of the film shows her standing on top of the building, looking at Baghdad.
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero: Films: a 2015 documentary film
shot in Iraq, but not about Iraq war: Chronicles of everyday life in Iraq before and after the U.S. invasion.
Back to Babylon (film): Back in his home town of Babylon after a long exile, the Iraqi-born director Abbas Fahdel asks himself: "What has become of my friends? What has life here made of them? What would life here have made of me had I not decided to follow the course of destiny elsewhere?" In his search and inquiries, his encounters with the friends of his youth, it is the situation today in Iraq that is revealed through the camera's eye: the ravages of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, the after-effects of the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and the embargo imposed by the United Nations.
Requiem of Snow: '''''Requiem of Snow''''' is a 2005 film written by Iranian screenwriter Sholeh Shariati and directed by the Kurdish-Iranian director Jamil Rostami. It is a joint production of Iran and Iraq and also the first film to represent Iraq in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars.
Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq: In this documentary Pilger argues that UN sanctions had a devastating effect on the children of Iraq during the 1990s.
Notturno (film): Shot over the course of three years between Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Lebanon, ''Notturno'' follows different people from areas near war zones in the Middle East who are trying to start over again with their everyday lives
Clash of Loyalties: '''''Clash of Loyalties''''' (, aka '''''The Great Question''''') is a 1983 Iraqi film
Al-ayyam al-tawila: '''''Al-ayyam al-tawila''''' ( ; ) is a 1980 6-hour long biographical account of Saddam Hussein's attempted assassination of Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1959,
Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture: Films shot in Iraq: and this inspired Pejman Akbarzadeh to visit Iraq twice to film the arch and record its history.
but not about Iraq war: '''''Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture''''' is a 2018 documentary film on the world's largest brick vault Taq Kasra.
Once Upon a Time in Mesopotamia: The book , on which the film is based, is an illustrated monograph on Mesopotamian archaeology,
Jani Gal: The story is set in 1950s Iraq and illustrates the plight of ''Juamer'' in a flashback structure.
A Step into the Darkness: '''''A Step into the Darkness''''' () is a 2009 Turkish drama film, directed by Atil Inac, starring Suzan Genç as an Iraqi refugee who travels to Turkey in search of her missing brother after losing her entire family when soldiers raid their village. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , has won awards at international film festivals in Ankara, Antalya and Tiburon.
Atil Inac's second feature film ''A Step into the Darkness'' was in local theaters on September 17, 2010. The film was premiered at the 33rd Montreal World Film Festival in the summer of 2009, where it was highly praised by Quebecers. It was the opening film of the International Film Festival of Kerala, India. It won the Golden Reel Award for Best Cinematography at the Tiburon International Film Festival in San Francisco and Best Film Award at the South European Film Festival in Los Angeles. “A Step Into the Darkness” was written by Avni Özgürel - Atil Inac and produced by Ayfer Özgürel. It was shot on location in Iraqi cities of Arbil and Mosul, and in Adiyaman, Urfa, and Istanbul, Turkey.