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A Stranger in his own Country
(Iraq, 2007)

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Thousands of Iraqis have been displaced by sectarian violence and have had to seek refuge in other parts of the country. This is a portrait of Abu Ali, a refugee from Kirkuk living in a displaced person's camp on the outskirts of Kerbala. He is a peace-loving man with a keen sense of justice, trying to find a way to survive and provide for his family in the difficult circumstances in which they now find themselves.

Iraq, 2007 / Hassanain Al Hani from Independent Film & Television College, Baghdad
10 mins