In The Shadow Of The Palms: Iraq 18*

In The Shadow Of The Palms: Iraq In The Shadow Of The Palms: Iraq In The Shadow Of The Palms: Iraq In The Shadow Of The Palms: IraqDir: Wayne Coles-Janess | Australia | 2005 | 91 mins | BetaSP

An unprecedented insight into the Saddam regime and the war against it

Four weeks before the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq began, independent filmmaker Coles-Janess gained unsupervised access to Baghdad. His film focuses on the changes to the diverse lives of a poetry professor, an Olympic coach and a cobbler, among other Iraqis, in the days before bombing and has been applauded by international film festival audiences.

* local classification