Iraq
3rd Baghdad International Film Festival Aims To Revive Iraq's Industry
Nelson Carvajal
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Oct 05, 2011
Another example of how art can transcend even the most horrid of circumstances, Reuters is reporting that the 3rd Baghdad International Film Festival has kicked off this week! "Violence in Iraq has fallen sharply since the height of sectarian strife in 2006-07 and the country is trying to rebuild itself. Film fans aspire to revive a time when Indian and Western action movies were popular at Baghdad cinemas, and social clubs also often showed films. Today, only two cinemas operate in Baghdad and none outside the capital. Before former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was ousted by a U.S.-led invasion in 2003 the country boasted more than 80 cinemas. At the film festival's opening this week, the reception hall of the National Theatre received about three hundred people, mainly Iraqi directors and actors. The hall holds about 1,000 people. "We are trying to make this a success despite all the obstacles," Taher Alwan, one of the festival's directors, said."
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