The Iraqi film The President’s Cake has made history by reaching the Oscar 2026 international feature shortlist, a first for ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 director Hasan Hadi’s debut feature, “The President’s Cake,” which screens in Directors’ Fortnight, is the first film from Iraq at to play in Cannes. Set in Iraq the 1990s, it also “fills a gap, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iraq War Films; Stew The failure of Iraq War movies to generate audience buzz: an interview with Kimberly Peirce, whose fiction film Stop-Loss, was inspired by her brother, back from a tour in the ...