The Hat Factory is screening Maysoon Pachachi’s award-winning fiction debut, Our River… Our Sky, which seeks to offer a realistic portrayal of Iraqi lives amid the US-led occupation.
Curated by the Bute Street Festival, whose monthly film nights give you the best of what independent film has to offer with inspiring shorts and moving features, the feature screens on Thursday, September 21 (7:30pm).
Set against a backdrop of sectarian violence in 2006 Baghdad, Sara is a single mother and novelist trying to cope with unpredictable events unfolding around her.
Like her neighbours, she tries to sustain a fragile sense of hope and live her life in the best way she can, despite an uncertain future.
She and her neighbours let us into their everyday lives, as they struggle to resist the fragmentation of their world and renew a fragile sense of hope and belief in a better future.
Our River…Our Sky is the first internationally co-produced narrative feature film written and directed by a female filmmaker of Iraqi origin – the London-based film producer / director / editor Maysoon Pachachi.
Co-written with Irada Al-Jubori – a Baghdad-based writer of fiction – the film offers an authentic insider’s perspective to the contemporary Iraqi narrative.
In 2012, the script won the $100,000 IWC Schaffhausen Gulf Filmmaker Award at Dubai International Film Festival – presented to the film’s director by Head of Jury, Cate Blanchett.
