Horizon of Arab Cinema · 43rd Edition
OUR RIVER…OUR SKY
KULSHI MAKOO
Director
Maysoon Pachachi, Maysoon PACHACHI
Country
France, Germany, United Kingdom, Kuwait, Iraq, United Arab Emirates
Runtime
1 h 57 min
Language
Arabic
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
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 neighbours 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.
Cast
Darina Al Joundi, Zainab Joda, Basim Hajar, Labwa Arab
Screenplay
Irada Al-Jubori, Maysoon Pachachi
Producers
Patrice NEZAN, Talal AL MUHANNA, Laurent Versini, Alexander Ris, Maysoon Pachachi
About the Director
A London-based filmmaker of Iraqi origin. She has a degree in film studies from the London Film School. She was for many years a documentary and fiction film editor in the UK and has worked since 1994 as an independent documentary film director, largely making films about the Middle East. In 2004, she founded Independent Film & Television College, a free-of-charge film training centre in Baghdad. She has also taught film directing and editing in Britain and Palestine
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