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Festival Films A-Z
Sari's Mother
Daylight Factory
James Longley
110 Vine Street, #302
98121 Seattle, WA
USA
Tel.: +1 206 6615030
E-Mail: james_longley@yahoo.com
Internet: www.daylightfactory.com
James Longley
James Longley
Synopsis
Filmed in Iraq over a period of one year, Sari's Mother is a short documentary that follows the struggle of an Iraqi mother to seek help for her 10-year-old son, Sari, who is dying of AIDS.
The Zegum family lives in the restive Mahmudiyah area of central Iraq. They make their living by selling milk and butter, farming land rented from their neighbors. As the film opens, US military helicopters are flying low over their fields. Sari's mother administers injections to her son, whose condition is gradually deteriorating as his immune system fails. She seeks help in Baghdad?s hospitals and ministries, but discovers that the Iraqi healthcare system is in
even worse condition under US occupation than before the war.
Sari's Mother was filmed as part of Longley's Oscar-nominated feature documentary Iraq in Fragments, but was finally released as a short documentary instead. Both films exemplify the poetic, intimate, and compassionate style of filmmaking that make Longley one of the most outstanding contemporary documentary directors.
As Nathan Lee puts it in The Village Voice: "James Longley's lyrical reportage of an Iraqi woman and her AIDS-inflicted son speaks volumes at a whisper. His volume of effects isn't simple virtuosity but a sophisticated language of compassion; there's heartbreak in his ellipses, strength in his frame, empathy in his light."
Biography
Gaza Strip (2002), Iraq in Fragments (2006), Sari?s Mother (2006)
Filmography
Gaza Strip (2002), Iraq in Fragments (2006), Sari's Mother (2006)
Dates
| 14 | 02.10.2007 | 22:30 | Filmhaus |
| 94 | 09.10.2007 | 21:15 | Filmhaus |