BAGHDAD ON FIRE

BAGHDAD ON FIRE

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY | 2023

After a lifetime of conflict in Iraq, 20-year-old Tiba joins the October 2019 protests. She is amazed to see so many young men and women gathering from across the nation. Regardless of class and religion, the youth stand side by side in a fight to reclaim their country. Tiba forms new friendships, ideas and dreams. When the peaceful protests are met with violence, she becomes a medic tending to the wounded. But she could never have imagined the heartache one fatality brings.

Featuring: Tiba Fadhil, Yousif Satar، and Khader Elias Taha


Director | Karrar Al-Azzawi
Producer | Jørgen Lorentzen and Nefise Özkal Lorentzen

Cinematographer | Hussein Monaf and Basher Salman
Production Manager in Baghdad | Mohammed Aziz
Editor |Morten Haslerud

Composers (Feature version) | Simon M. Valentine and Nawar Alnaddaf

Composers (Short version) | Naseer Shamma and Simon M. Valentine

Sound Design | Daniel Angyal (Feature version) / Anna Nilsson (Short version)

Colorist | Anders Hoft


Production Company | Integral Film
In Co-Production with | Al Jazeera

BRODCAST

FILM FESTIVAL

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

Best Nordic documentary at Movies on War film festival

Best feature documentary at CitéCiné, le Festival International du Film Politique de Carcassonne

Audience Award at Nordic Docs film festival.

Audience Award for best feature documentary at Twin Cities Arab Film Festival

Nominated for FACT:AWARD at CPH:DOX 

Nominated for DOK.horizonte Competition – Cinema of Urgency at Munich International Documentary Film Festival 

Nominated for Arab Competition at Amman International Film Festival 

Nominated for New Nordic Voice at Nordisk Panorama

ALL FESTIVALS

Danemark | CPH:DOX - Copenhagen International Documentary Festival | WORLD PREMIERE

Germany | Munich International Documentary Film Festival

Norway | Bergen film festival

USA | Atlanta Film festival

Belgium | Festival des Libertés film Festival

Jordan | Amman film Festival

Sweden | Nordisk Panorama

Canada | Cinema Politica, Montreal

Algeria | Oran International Arab film festival

USA | SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
USA | BIG SKY DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL

Greece | Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival

Italy | Middle East Now Film Festival

Norway | Arabiskfilmdager Oslo film Festival

Germany | Doxs Ruhr film festival

Norway | Movies on War film Festival

Italy | Visioni Dal Mondo film Festival

France | CitéCiné, le Festival International du Film Politique de Carcassonne

Norway | Nordic/Docs film festival 

USA | Twin Cities Arab Film Festival

USA | Tennessee film Festival

Canada | REGARD – Saguenay International Short Film Festival

Norway | ARABISK FILM FEST BERGEN

Switzerland | Aube Film festival