Iraq in Fragments (Blu-ray Edition)
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE:
Best Documentary Feature, 2006
EMMY AWARD NOMINEE:
Outstanding Individual Achievement In a Craft: Cinematography, 2007
1080p Blu-ray HD edition.
An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the U.S. presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied.
American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. Winner of Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing awards in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival documentary competition, the film was also awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, was named Best Documentary at the Chicago International Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2007 Academy Awards.
Winner! Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing
- 2006 Sundance Film Festival
Winner! Best Documentary
- 2006 Gotham Awards
Winner! Best Documentary
- 2006 IDA Awards
“. . . if Longley’s astonishing feat of poetic agitation has a precedent in the entire history of documentary, I’m not aware of it.”
- Rob Nelson, The Village Voice
(2006, 94 minutes, In Arabic & Kurdish with English, French, German, Japanese or Spanish subtitles, Directed by James Longley)
BD Special Features
- Feature-length audio commentary by director James Longley
- 5.1 (Uncompressed PCM & AC3) audio & 2.0 audio
- Beautiful 1080p Transfer from the original film elements
- Trailers
Release Information: SRP $34.99
Release Date: December 2008
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