500 Miles To Babylon: A Film About Iraq Under U.S. Occupation April 26, 2007

500 Miles to Babylon is a one-hour documentary shot in multiple cities
in Iraq in 2003-4. Narrated by the filmmaker, it addresses the current
war not simply as a conflict over petroleum profits or a scheme to
fill a company's coffers, but as part of a larger American imperial
project. Through impromptu interviews, glimpses of daily life, still
photographs, and footage of car-bombs, demonstrations, night-time
graffiti artists, Sufi rituals, and the celebrations following
Saddam's capture, 500 Miles To Babylon reveals the complex situation
in contemporary Iraq through a personal lens.

It is a film not about soldiers, not about governments, but about
Iraqi civilians and a handful of independent journalists in a country
being turned into hell. A cinema verite narrative of daily life,
disintegration, and the humor that ordinary people adapt when living
in a warzone.

The story ends with rare footage from inside besieged Fallujah, where
the filmmaker went in April 2004 with a group of volunteers to deliver
medical aid to the town's inhabitants and subsequently reported to the
world about the conditions of civilians during the fighting.

With a soundtrack of Iraqi Choubi songs compiled by Sublime
Frequencies, 500 Miles... is unlike any Iraq movie you have seen!

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