“Our River...Our Sky” — Film Screening, Q&A with Director Maysoon Pachachi
A narrative feature film by Maysoon Pachachi
Baghdad. The last week of 2006. All over the city, people of different religions are being forced out of their homes on a daily basis and neighborhoods are being divided by concrete walls. At night, under curfew, the residents remain trapped inside their houses. Sara is a single mother and novelist, shocked into silence, at a time of extreme sectarian violence and nightly curfews in Baghdad. She and her neighbors let us into their everyday lives, as they struggle to resist the fragmentation of their world and renew a fragile sense of hope and belief in a better future.
About the Film Director
Maysoon Pachachi is a London-based Iraqi film writer, director, and producer educated in Iraq, the USA, and the UK. She has worked as an independent documentary film director, largely making films in and about the Middle East. Maysoon Pachachi has taught film directing and editing in Britain and Palestine including in Jerusalem, Gaza, and at Birzeit University. With the Iraqi filmmaker Kasim Abid, she co-founded INDEPENDENT FILM & TELEVISION COLLEGE, a free-of-charge film-training center in Baghdad, whose students produced 17 short documentary films, shown at festivals and screenings internationally and within Iraq.
Sponsored by:
- Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rutgers University-Newark.
- The International Institute for Peace
- Peace and Conflict Studies Program
- Global Urban Studies Program
Time: 5:00 PM EST
Free!
