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Our River...Our Sky
a film by Maysoon Pachachi
117 min /

Drama

Iraq, France, UK, Germany, Kuwait, UAE, and Qatar

Our River… Our Sky is set against a backdrop of sectarian violence in the last week of 2006, between Christmas and Eid Al-Adha. 


It tells the stories of ordinary Iraqis trying to live their everyday lives in the capital, Baghdad, despite the unpredictable violent events that place them in peril.g

Cast

Darina Al-Joundi, Bassim Mahmood, Zainab Joda, Amed Hashimi, Miriam Abbas

Crew

Screenwriter: Maysoon Pachachi & Irada Al-Jabbouri

DOP: Jonathan Bloom

Editor: Alexandre Donot

Original Title: Kulshi Makoo
Production Company(ies):

Les Contes Modernes, Oxymoron Films, Linked Productions, Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion



Producer(s):

Patrice Nezan, Laurent Versini, Maysoon Pachachi, Talal Al-Muhanna, and Alexander Ris



  • Festival International du Film d'Amiens, France

  • Carthage Film Festival, Tunisia

  • Venice International Film Festival, Italy

  • El-Gouna Film Festival, Egypt

  • Malmö Arab Film Festival, Sweden

  • Arab Film Festival, US

  • Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt 

  • Slemani International Film Festival, Iraq

  • Franco Arab Film Festival, Baghdad

  • Raindance Film Festival, UK

  • British Independent Film Awards, UK

  • International Film Festival of Kerala, India

  • AMMAN International Film Festival

  • Rotterdam Arab Film Festival, Netherlands

  • Berlin Alfilm Arab Film Festival, Germany

  • Lyon Institut Lumière, France

  • Paris Institut du Monde Arabe, France   

  • San Francisco Arab Film Festival, USA


  • IWC Schaffhausen Script Award, Dubai International Film Festival

  • The Cell Group Award, Malmö Arab Film Festival

  • Best Ensemble Performance, British Independent Film Awards

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Reviews

Blood, bullets and contraband vodka: female artists on life in Baghdad after the US invasion, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/15/baghdad-iraq-war-another-day-us-invasion-female-artists
 
Compelling Portraits of Lives in an Iraqi War Zone, The Guardian 
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/16/our-river-our-sky-review-compelling-portrait-of-lives-in-an-iraqi-war-zone
 
Michael Fox, KQED 
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13906319/2021-arab-film-festival-our-river-our-sky 
Kais Kassem, The New Arab (Arabic)
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/entertainment_media/%22%D9%83%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A-%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%22-%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%87-%D8%AC%D9%8A-%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%A9?fbclid=IwAR2NfqCa2D9xiQN0l-41Vw5kI8PLzTBXV0y6SnGIBGKao-QPDdqYHbIqqE0
Kais Kassem,  Al Jazeera 
https://doc.aljazeera.net/followup/%D9%85%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8043-2/ 
 
Saad Al Qurash, Raseef22 
https://raseef22.net/article/1085553-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%85%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%85-%D8%AA%D8%AA%D8%AE%D9%84%D8%B5-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AB-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AD
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