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Homeland (Iraq Year Zero)

وطن: العراق السنة صفر

2015

This sweeping documentary intimately chronicles the everyday lives of the filmmaker's own family and neighbors in Iraq in the months before and after the 2003 U.S. invasion, capturing a society on the brink and in freefall. A monumental record.

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Part of 10 Essential Iraqi Films

This film is stop 5 of 10 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Iraq. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

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