Baghdad High
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Ivan O'mahoney
Ali Shadman
Anmar Refat
Hayder Khalid
Mohammad Ra'ed
Mohammad Abu Abdallah
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Four Iraqi teen boys, all friends, come of age in the most dangerous city on earth--Baghdad. Filmed by the students themselves, offers insight into ordinary Iraqi lives rarely seen. One boy is Kurdish, one Christian, one Shia and one mixed Sunni and Shia. As they enter their last year in school, can their friendship survive the sectarian violence tearing their city apart? School is a safe haven in some ways for the boys but the strain of daily life does little to promote an atmosphere of academic study. Rather they want to do the usual that adolescent boys are interested in--text a girlfriend, play computer games or learn the words to a rap song. At the same time, with their families, they face an important decision--whether to stay in Baghdad with all the attendant risks or flee to safer areas as so many other Iraqis have done. The boys must also look to the future and to the world beyond their school.
Crew
Mohammad Abu Abdallah
Fallah Al-rubaie
Farhad Amirahmadi
Ceerwan Aziz
Mounir Baaziz
Geof Bartz
Mounir Baziz
Max Becherer
Johnny Burke
Johnny Burke
Dan Chapman
Alex Cooke
Hans Robert Eisenhauer
Zaid H. Fahmi
Victoria Ford
Richard Guard
Richard Guard
Alan Hayling
Lisa Heller
Maria Livesey
Sheila Nevins
Annabel New
Karen O'connor
Ivan O'mahoney
Ayad Taha Saeed
Teun Voeten
Laura Winter
Will Worsley
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States 2008
Aired in United States August 4, 2008
Shown at Tribeca Film Festival (World Documentary Feature Competition) April 23-May 4, 2008.
Aired in USA on HBO on August 4, 2008.
