Check your pro-war or anti-war bias at the door and go to see this film. What you will see is an amazingly diverse country, from the Marsh Arabs in the south to the Kurds in the north. Over 100 digital video cameras were distributed to Iraqis and they shot footage of their lives. The footage was shot between January and September, 2004. I was struck by how limited our sense of who Iraqis are has been. Given all of our technology, why is it that we don't get to hear more Iraqi voices in U.S. media? Iraqis have an amazing sense of humor, irony and optimism. I came away hoping more than ever that they can succeed in building a stable country and asking myself why so many want them to fail.
Review of Voices of Iraq
