Saturday, February 24, 2018

Saturday Short

Today's Saturday Short presents the trailer for Nowhere to Hide (2016), a documentary by Zaradasht Ahmed that details the Iraq War and its effects on Nori Sharif, a nurse, and his family. In Arabic with English subtitles, the film was the recipient of numerous honors, including the 2016 IDFA Winner for Best Feature-Length Documentary, the 2017 Nestor Almendros Award for Courage in Filmmaking, and the 2017 Best Documentary Award of the One World Human Rights Festival. 

Read Hoshang Waziri's article "Iraq & the Wounds That Never Heal" at New York Review of Books Daily, February 9, 2018.


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