All My Mothers Iraq / Iran
2009, 60min.
Producer: Abbas Ghazali, Directors: Ebrahim Saeedi, Zahavi Sanjavi, Script: Ebrahim Saeedi, Zahavi Sanjavi, Director of Photography: Ebrahim Saeedi, Composer: Hossein Alizadeh, Sound: Ebrahim Saeedi, Toofan Aboobakr, Behrooz Shahamat, Editor: Ebrahim Saeedi
During the 30 years of the rule of Baath party under Sadam in Iraq, thousands of Iraqi Kurds and Shiites were either killed or disappeared. Around 182,000 people lost their lives when 4500 villages and townships were destroyed in Kirkuk, Soleimanieh, Dahouk and Erbil regions with the aim to exterminate the Kurds and to arabize Kurdistan. Finding one of the mass graves in the southern deserts of Iraq after 24 years, , became the basis of a movie that depicts the living conditions of these villages inhabited mostly by mothers, daughters, wives or sisters of those victims. This film also contributes to our understanding the current situation in Iraq.
Production Company
Sheherezad Media International | Saeedi, Ebrahim Ebrahim Saeedi (born 1965, Mahabad, Iranian Kurdistan)
Director, editor and photographer, Ebrahim Saeedi has a B.A in Cinema from the Arts University of Tehran. He pursued a career in movie editing, directing and photographing about 100 different films. He also edited 5 feature films.
Filmography
Silence Screams (1997), Mass’ Requiem (1999), Eclipse (2001), Reunion (2002), Fire Beneath the Ashes (2003), All My Mothers (2009), Mandoo (2010)
Sanjavi, ZahaviZahavi Sanjavi (born in 1967 in Arbil, Kurdistan, Iraq)
In 1975 he sought asylum in Iran along with his family as a result of the war, which broke out in Iraqi Kurdistan. He pursued his studies in Sweden and Russia in the field of scriptwriting and filmmaking. He holds a M.Sc. in filmmaking from the University of Cinema in Moscow. He returned to Iraq in 2005, after being an immigrant and a refugee for 30 years. He is now active in making feature and TV films as scriptwriter and filmmaker.
Filmography
Sharabot (1999), Game and Nothing More (2001), Night Flight (2002), The Border (2005), 1991 Karkuk (2006), Eternal Him (2007), All My Mothers (2009) |
