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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

Reviews

Name: Our River...Our Sky
Genre: Drama
Released: 2021
Duration: 117 min

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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