Samir

All Movies of Samir

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  Baghdad in My Shadow
  "Abu Nawas" is a trendy café and popular hangout for artists, communists and gay Iraqi exiles in London, it's close to the Salafist Mosque. When Nasseer, a fanatic religious youth and nephew of poet Taufiq, attacks his ...
  Director of the film

   2019

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  Iraqi Odyssey
  Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, this riveting 3D documentary epic from acclaimed expatriate Iraqi filmmaker Samir pays moving homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively...
  Director of the film

   2014

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  Snow White
  The life of 20-year-old Nico from upper class Zurich is all party, sex and drugs when she meets Paco, the front man of a rap band. She finds herself drawn to his independent, creative and profound way of life, so different from he...
  Director of the film

   2005

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  Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection
  A filmic reflection about the stereotypes of “Jew” and “Arab” through onehundred years of film, contrasted with the history of Jewish communists from Iraq. The protagonists are Shimon Ballas, a writer and professor of Arab...
  Director of the film

   2002

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  Always & Forever
  In this story, a man and a woman have been fatally wounded by a policeman in a shootout at an outdoor market. The two meet in an anteroom for the spirits of the not-quite dead, and they fall in love. They are returned to life for ...
  Director of the film

   1991