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OUR RIVER…OUR SKY

KULSHI MAKOO

By Maysoon PACHACHI

Drama - Completed 2021

In a residential neighborhood in Baghdad in 2006, a community of ordinary people try to live their everyday lives amidst the threat of sectarian violence. At the heart of these intersecting stories is Sara, a single mother and novelist.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- IRAQ, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, KUWAIT, GERMANY, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, QATAR
- Languages
- ARABIC
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 110 mn
- Director(s)
- Maysoon PACHACHI
- Writer(s)
- Maysoon PACHACHI, Irada AL-JABBOURI
- Cast
- Darina AL JOUNDI, Zaydun KHALAF, Amed HASHIMI
- Producer(s)
- Talal AL-MUHANNA (Oxymoron Films), Patrice NEZAN (Les Contes Modernes), Alexander RIS (NEUE MEDIOPOLIS FILMPRODUKTION), Maysoon PACHACHI (OXYMORON FILMS)
- Synopsis
- Baghdad, winter, 2006. A time of extreme sectarian violence and nightly curfews. The story unfolds on Christmas Eve and follows the lives of several residents in a typically mixed neighborhood. At the heart of these intersecting, simultaneously unfolding stories is SARA, a novelist who is unable to write any longer due to the overwhelming tragedy that surrounds her and her 7-year old daughter Reema. When her closest friend, SABIHA, a Christian, is forced into exile, she gradually regains her sense of self and begins to find the will to resist and to write again. But her hopeful outlook may be short-lived when the sudden pre-dawn execution of Saddam Hussein just before the New Year plunges everyone around her into a heightened state of fear. Like the other residents of the neighborhood, Sara struggles to sustain a fragile hope in the face of overwhelming destruction and, sometimes, like a miracle, life still blossoms.
- Partners & financing
- Les Contes Modernes (France); Neuemediopolis Filmproduktion (Germany): Oxymoron Films (UK).
  
  Eurimages / CNC / BFI / MDM
- Beginning of shooting
- Feb 25, 2019
- End of shooting
- Apr 12, 2019