Baghdad Days

Hiba Bassem, a young woman from Kirkuk, returns to Baghdad after the war, to finish her film studies at the Academy of Fine Arts. In Kirkuk, the Arab Hiba and her family had lived in harmony with the Kurds, but the war had changed all that and prompted the move to Baghdad. She is the first class of film and TV students to submit their graduation films.

The film is a diary of her year, as she struggles to finish her studies in the semi-destroyed city of Baghdad, find a place to live, find a job, deal with family problems and above all survive. This film has won a New Horizon Silver Award at the Al Jazeera International Film Festival in Doha in 2006, and a Golden Award at the Rotterdam Arab Film Festival in 2006.