Playing From Bagdad to Manchester

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From Bagdad to Manchester

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Contributed by Citizen Shift

Length: 8 min 29 sec

License: Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)

Year of Production: 2004

Director:

Eza Pazenti

Producer:

Eza Pazenti

Under the fascist regime of Saddam Hussein, numerous Kurd families suffered psychologically and physically, villages burned and millions of Kurds killed. Liberation, or a sense thereof, for Alan Amin came about through his work in theatre. Censured and imprisoned, he managed to escape to London and eventually Manchester. His art is a passionate denouncement of the political conditions in his country. From Baghdad to Manchester is an intimate portrait of a Kurd artist in exile who, metaphorically, remains in his country through his activist theatre performances.