My Beautiful Baghdad
Ali Jbara Al-Daraji is an Iraqi-Canadian filmmaker and producer working between Toronto and the MENA region. His work explores themes of memory, war, and identity through intimate human stories. He is the director of the short film My Beautiful Baghdad, set on the eve of the 2003 American invasion. As a producer, he has co-produced IRKALLA: Dreams of Gilgamesh, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and later screened at TIFF, and the Saudi feature film Hijra, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
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Ali Jbara Al-Daraji is an Iraqi-Canadian filmmaker and producer working between Toronto and the MENA region. His work explores themes of memory, war, and identity through intimate human stories. He is the director of the short film My Beautiful Baghdad, set on the eve of the 2003 American invasion. As a producer, he has co-produced IRKALLA: Dreams of Gilgamesh, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and later screened at TIFF, and the Saudi feature film Hijra, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.