Boys from Baghdad High: lesson and DVD
film Description
What is it like to have to get your final exam in a country at war? In the most dangerous city in the world, Baghdad is that the task for four friends and classmates. Surrounded by suicide terrorism, roadside bombs, kidnappings and power failures, they continue to face a stern schoolmaster, the stress of final exams, raging hormones and demanding parents. The boys - a Kurd, a Shiite, a Christian and a mixed Sunni-Shiite - have each been given a camera to film their lives and each other. Can maintain their multicultural friendship in a city torn by sectarian violence?
themes
Education, war, political life
UK, USA, France 2007, 55 min.
Documentary, Video, Color
Arabic, Kurdish, English
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