Iraq documentary nominated for Best Documentary Oscar

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James Longley’s feature Iraq in Fragments - currently screening at the ICA - has been nominated in the Best Documentary category at this year’s Academy Awards.

The film is one of five titles nominated for the Best Documentary award. Other nominated films in the category include: Deliver Us From Evil; An Inconvenient Truth; Jesus Camp; and, My Country, My Country.

Iraq in Fragments is a trilogy of portraits of the war-torn country. A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; followers of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied.  

American director James Longley spent over 2 years filming in Iraq and this stunningly photographed film presents the country through the eyes of those who live there - the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.

 

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  Iraq in Fragments has been described by previous Best Documentary recipient Michael Moore as “a stunningly beautiful film ... What this movie shows, you will never see on the evening news."

Winner of Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing awards in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival documentary competition, the film was also awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Most recently the film has won the Distinguished Feature Documentary Award at the International Documentary Association (IDA) awards and was named as one the Top 5 Documentaries of the Year at the National Board of Review awards.

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The 79th Academy Awards will be held at the Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles, on Sunday 25th February 2006. Iraq in Fragments was released by ICA films last Friday, 19th January and will play at the ICA until 18th February.

 

 

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