Iraq in Fragments (2006)

An opus in three parts Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate passionatelyfelt portraits A fatherless 11yearold is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed poetically rendered documentary of the wartorn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis Shiites and Kurds