Baghdad Twist

"Baghdad twist features a unique, never-before-seen collection of archival images, home movies and family photographs from Iraq. The film pulls back the curtain on Iraq's once thriving Jewish community. Baghdad-born filmmaker Joe Balass takes us on a poetic journey through the fragmented memories of an Arab exile in a film that evokes nostalgia for home, for an Iraq that no longer exists"--Container.

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""Baghdad twist features a unique, never-before-seen collection of archival images, home movies and family photographs from Iraq. The film pulls back the curtain on Iraq's once thriving Jewish community. Baghdad-born filmmaker Joe Balass takes us on a poetic journey through the fragmented memories of an Arab exile in a film that evokes nostalgia for home, for an Iraq that no longer exists"--Container."@en
"Indiqué sur la jaquette : Baghdad Twist porte à l'écran une série inédite d'images d'archives, de films et de photographies de famille provenant d'Irak et lève le voile sur la communauté juive, autrefois florissante, de ce pays. Dans un film traduisant le mal du pays et la nostalgie d'un Irak à jamais disparu, le cinéaste originaire de Bagdad, Joe Balass, entraîne le spectateur dans un voyage poétique par des fragments de souvenirs de l'exil arabe."
""In this visual memoir, filmmaker Joe Balass, born in Baghdad in 1966, blends a voice-ver interview with his mother, Valentine, and an evocative flow of photos, archival footage, and Super-8 home movies of his family's life in Iraq before their departure for a new home in Canada in 1970. In so doing, [the film] provides a poignant portrait of Iraq's Jewish society, which had existed since Babylonian times as one of the world's oldest and most historically significant Jewish communities, living harmoniously among their Arab neighbours. Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, however, they began to experience persecution, and thousands of Iraqi Jews fled"--Container."@en
"Baghdad Twist porte à l'écran une série inédite d'images d'archives, de films et de photographies de famille provenant d'Irak et lève le voile sur la communauté juive, autrefois florissante, de ce pays. Dans un film traduisant le mal du pays et la nostalgie d'un Irak à jamais disparu, le cinéaste originaire de Bagdad, Joe Balass, entraîne le spectateur dans un voyage poétique par des fragments de souvenirs de l'exil arabe. En anglais avec sous-titres français."
""In this visual memoir, filmmaker Joe Balass, born in Baghdad in 1966, blends a voice-over interview with his mother, Valentine, and an evocative flow of photos, archival footage, and Super-8 home movies of his family's life in Iraq before their departure for a new home in Canada in 1970. In so doing, [the film] provides a poignant portrait of Iraq's Jewish society, which had existed since Babylonian times as one of the world's oldest and most historically significant Jewish communities, living harmoniously among their Arab neighbors. Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, however, they began to experience persecution, and thousands of Iraqi Jews fled"--Container."@en
"In this visual memoir, filmmaker Joe Balass, born in Baghdad in 1966, blends a voice-over interview with his mother, Valentine, and an evocative flow of photos, archival footage, and Super-8 home movies of his family's life in Iraq before their departure for a new home in Canada in 1970. In so doing, the film provides a poignant portrait of Iraq's Jewish society, which had existed since Babylonian times as one of the world's oldest and most historically significant Jewish communities, living harmoniously among their Arab neighbors. Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, however, they began to experience persecution, and thousands of Iraqi Jews fled."@en
"It could be anywhere. A mid-1960s wedding reception captured on Super-8 film. Narrow ties. Bouffant hairdos. Flickering images of a joyful couple and smiling guests. A band plays and people fill the dance floor to do the latest craze: The Twist. But this is Baghdad. And for the citys Jewish community, it is an evening of joy during a prolonged period of persecution. Within a few years, most of the wedding guests pictured in the film will have fled the city, never to return. Within a decade, the community, which has existed since Babylonian times, will be all but gone. For filmmaker Joe Balass and his mother Valentine, a memory is recalled, shared, constructed, from the fragments that remain. "You were just a little kid. We left the house. You should see it. Its like someone is still living there. The beds, the tables, the furniture, the food in the fridgeeverything. You thought it was a game. You were not even four." Baghdad Twist is a visual memoir of one familys life in Iraq before escaping to a new home in Canada in the fall of 1970. Featuring a never-before-seen collection of archival images, home movies and family photographs from Baghdad, the film pulls back the curtain on Iraqs once thriving Jewish community, its perilous final years and its remarkable ability to find solace in the shadow of fear."
"Baghdad Twist porte à l'écran une série inédite d'images d'archives, de films et de photographies de famille provenant d'Irak et lève le voile sur la communauté juive, autrefois florissante, de ce pays. Dans un film traduisant le mal du pays et la nostalgie d'un Irak à jamais disparu, le cinéaste originaire de Bagdad, Joe Balass, entraîne le spectateur dans un voyage poétique par des fragments de souvenirs de l'exil arabe."