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Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection

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Germany, Switzerland · 2002
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Forget Baghdad explores the history and lives of Mizrahim or the Jewish community of Iraq. The film focuses on five expatriate Iraqi Jews living in Israel and mixes interviews with vintage archival footage to ponder questions of patriotism, exile, identity.

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Village Voice by

Grainy video and gimmicky editing give this documentary an amateurish feel, but Samir's charming, rueful interlocutors shine through.

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TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

The constant flow of background images can be distracting, but this is nonetheless a fascinating film that offers an unexpected and valuable perspective on the on-going Arab-Israeli conflict.

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