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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.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Balass, Valentine--Interviews.
- Balass, Valentine.
- Jews, Iraqi--Canada--Interviews.
- Jews, Iraqi.
- Jewish women--Canada--Interviews.
- Jewish women.
- Political refugees--Canada--Interviews.
- Political refugees.
- Jews--Iraq--Baghdad--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Jews.
- Cultural pluralism--Iraq--Baghdad.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Jews--Persecutions--Iraq--Baghdad.
- Jews--Persecutions.
- Manners and customs.
- Baghdad (Iraq)--Ethnic relations.
- Baghdad (Iraq).
- Iraq--Baghdad.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Biographical films.
- Short films.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Interviews.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (34 min.) : digital, sound, color with black and white sequences
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2019]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Participant:
- Valentine Balass.
- Credits:
- Editor, Annie Jean ; original music by Dino Giancola and Janet Lumb.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: National Film Board of Canada, ©2007; previously released in 2008.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed December 17, 2019).
- Publisher Number:
- if-bag Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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