About Baghdad is the first film made about Iraq after the fall of the Ba'ath regime in July 2003. It is also perhaps the first effort to privilege the voices of the Iraqi people, from all walks of life as well as social, economic and ethnic backgrounds. While many have talked about and for the Iraqi people, few media outlets have sought to probe beyond the simplistic binary of pro-US/pro-Saddam perspective so often found in Western and Arab media portrayals of Iraq. About Baghdad presents Iraqis who describe the pain, complexity and suffering of living under decades of tyranny, oppression, wars, sanctions and now occupation.
Directed by: Adam Shapiro, Sinan Antoon
Cast: after leaving Iraq in 1991. It privileges the voices of native Iraqis from all walks of life, and occupation. Thus, as they present their views on life during the regime of Saddam Hussein as well as the United States's bombing, invasion, misrepresentations of the Iraqi's voices by mainstream media, Sinan Antoon, the aim of the documentary is to provide insight in the complexity of the Iraqi's perspectives, the artist Sinan Antoon as he returns to his native Baghdad, to move beyond the marginalization
Genres: Documentary