Iraq in Fragments (2006)

Title: Iraq in Fragments

Original Title: Iraq in Fragments

Release Date: 2006-01-21

Status: Released

Rating: 6.6/10 (from 17 votes)

Language: KU

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: Typecast Pictures, Daylight Factory, HBO Documentary Films

An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.