Florida Premiere
Tuesday, Dec. 9, 3:30 pm
Switzerland, 2002. Samir, director.
Arabic, Hebrew w/ Eng. subtitles 114 min.

Timely and thought-provoking Forget Baghdad looks at five Arab Jews caught up in a violent culture clash. It casts a cold eye on racial intolerance both in Iraq, where four of the film’s subjects were born, and in Israel, where they now live. Thoroughly assimilated now, in a country that was once an "enemy," they work through
political, national and personal questions. An eyeopening portrait of Arab Jewish identity that holds up a
mirror to the conflict in the Middle East.