Amal’s Garden

Amal and Mustafa are an Iraqi Turkman couple that have shared a long life together in northern Iraq. When Amal decides to renovate their home after a decade of war, Mustafa retreats to the garden, where he encounters the curious gaze of his grandniece and her camera. 

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Filmed in Turkman (Iraqi Turkish) and Arabic in Kirkuk, Iraq. HD, 32 min, 2012.
 

“In Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, almost ten years after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, the Kurdish, Turkish and Iraqi flags fly side by side. The filmmaker of Amal’s Garden approaches this coexistence obliquely, with infinite tenderness, filming only what is intimate... ”

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— Charlotte Garson, Cinema du Reel, Centre Pompidou

CREDITS

Directed, Filmed and Produced by Nadia Shihab
Associate Produced by Lahib Jaddo
Edited by Sara Maamouri and Nadia Shihab
Additional Editing by Molly Snyder-Fink and Orlando Richards
Online & Color by Jesse Spencer
Sound Mix by Philip Perkins
 

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SUPPORT

Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)
Independent Television Service (ITVS)
Pacific Pioneer Fund
Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)
San Francisco Film Society - FilmHouse Residency

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