The Deminer

In the chaotic aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein Fakhir a father of eight is serving in the Iraqi army All around him he sees innocent civilians getting injured by landmines so he determines to disarm them with his own hands using just a pocketknife and some wire cutters He clears thousands of roadside bombs mines and car bombs knowing that every time he cuts a wire it could cost him his lifewhich he seems to find less important than the lives of others In 2014 by this time having lost a leg he starts working for the Kurdish Peshmerga disarming boobytraps left behind by Daesh in and around Mosul An enthusiastic home video maker Fakhir collects hundreds of hours of footage of his daytoday work