Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection

Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection is a 2002 documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq. It was written and directed by Samir, an Iraqi born in Baghdad in 1955 and living since 1961 in Switzerland.

Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection
Directed bySamir
Written bySamir
Produced bySamir
Gerd Haag
Karin Koch
StarringShimon Ballas
Moshe Houri
CinematographyNurit Aviv
Philippe Bellaiche
Edited bySamir
Nina Schneider
Music byRabih Abou-Khalil
Production
company
Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG
Distributed byArab Film Distribution
Release dates
  • November 21, 2002 (2002-11-21) (Switzerland)
  • March 13, 2003 (2003-03-13) (Germany)
CountriesGermany
Switzerland
LanguagesEnglish
Arabic
Hebrew

The film focuses on five expatriate Iraqi Jews, most living in Israel: Shimon Ballas, Moshe (Moussa) Houri, Sami Michael, Samir Naqqash, and Ella Habiba Shohat.

The film's music is by Rabih Abou-Khalil. It was produced by Karin Koch and Samir and edited by Nina Schneider and Samir. The directors of photography were Nurith Aviv and Philippe Bellaiche.

The film was a coproduction between TagTraum Cologne, Gerd Haag, SF DRS, Teleclub, and Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion. It is 112 minutes in length.

The DVD, which is distributed by Arab Film Distribution, comes with a 30-minute "Making of the film" featurette. The DVD has multiple audio tracks and subtitles in English, German, French, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish.

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