Practically a short course in Iraqi history, this riveting documentary epic from acclaimed expatriate filmmaker Samir traces the emigrations of his globalized, middle-class Iraqi family – now scattered between Auckland, Moscow, Paris, London and Buffalo -- over more than half a century. Along the way, it pays moving homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively plagued by the horrors of dictatorship, war and foreign occupation.

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"Watching it is like slowly leafing through a giant scrapbook whose contents include the individual stories of a large extended family." - New York Times

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