Baghdad twist / the National Film Board of Canada presents ; a film by Joe Balass ; written and directed by Joe Balass ; producer, Germaine Ying Gee Wong ; Quebec Production Centre - English Program, a National Film Board of Canada production.

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2019]

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In this visual memoir, filmmaker Joe Balass, born in Baghdad in 1966, blends a voice-over interview with his mother, Valentine, and an evocative flow of photos, archival footage, and Super-8 home movies of his family's life in Iraq before their departure for a new home in Canada in 1970. In so doing, [the film] provides a poignant portrait of Iraq's Jewish society, which had existed since Babylonian times as one of the world's oldest and most historically significant Jewish communities, living harmoniously among their Arab neighbors. Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, however, they began to experience persecution, and thousands of Iraqi Jews fled.

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English

January 16, 2020

Editor, Annie Jean ; original music by Dino Giancola and Janet Lumb.

Valentine Balass.

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