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Homeland: Iraq Year Zero

Homeland: Iraq Year Zero

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  • Iraq,
  • France
  • 2016
  • · 334m

Director Abbas Fahdel
Genre Documentary

Filmmaker Abbas Fahdel chronicles everyday life in Iraq before and after the U.S. invasion, from 2002 to 2003. Although the Iraqis thought they understood what was coming, they are forced to discover the unexpected tragedies that await them.

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The New York Times by Glenn Kenny

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime,” Ernest Hemingway wrote. Homeland: Iraq Year Zero is both an irrefutable proof of that statement and a nagging reminder that the statement is insufficient to address the ultimate tragedy of war.

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Slant Magazine by Oleg Ivanov

Throughout his nearly six-hour documentary, Abbas Fahdel is content with showing only the outer surface of people's lives.