Back to Babylon

Back to Babylon

8.7/10
0h52min
2002Documentary

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An Iraqi-born director returns to Babylon, questioning his past choices and friends' fates. The film explores present-day Iraq's dramatic situation.

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Back in his home town of Babylon after a long exile, the Iraqi-born director Abbas Fahdel asks himself: "What has become of my friends? What has life here made of them? What would my life have been like if I hadn't chosen to build my destiny elsewhere?" In his search and inquiries, it is the dramatic situation today in Iraq that is revealed through the camera's eye.