The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has whittled down a field of 86 eligible films for this year's Best ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An Iraqi film, The President’s Cake, has been shortlisted for the 2026 Oscars in the Best ...

Growing up, Israa Al-Kamali (SFS-Q ’17) dreamed of being a writer. But the more she wrote, the more she realized how much better the stories she wanted to tell would work as movies. She could imagine ...

Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s first feature The President’s Cake has won the second edition of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight People’s Choice audience award. New York-based Hadi has tapped into his own ...

Iraqi writer/director Hasan Hadi finds a most unusual way into the story of Saddam Hussein, who served as president of his country until the U.S. invasion in 2003 ...

VENICE (Reuters) - In "The Hurt Locker," the latest film about the war in Iraq, a bomb disposal expert takes risks beyond the call of duty as he comes to realize that only one thing makes him feel ...

BAGHDAD -- Husham al-Kanani practically grew up in a Baghdad movie theater, watching films at the cinema his father managed. Kanani relives that time only in brief moments. He walks into the few ...

"History isn’t repeating itself, but it’s rhyming," Alia Shawkat told Newsweek while talking about her new movie, Atropia.

In a new documentary, 12 Iraqi women gather in Damascus, Syria, with a goal: They intend to learn photography, decide what stories to tell, then return to Iraq and tell those stories with their ...

In a paper she published last year, American University's Pat Aufderheide estimated that there have been dozens of Iraq documentaries released since the war began in 2003. To make sense of this ...

A film resulting from a unique collaboration between American and Iraqi filmmakers will be shown in Napa at 7:30 p.m., on Nov. 8. The showing of "The Dreams of Sparrows," described as the first ...

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