Iraq in Fragments

This Oscar nominee for Best Doc Feature is comprised of stories from present-day Iraq as told by Iraqis living in a time of war, occupation and ethnic hatred. Director James Longley will participate in Q&A’s after the 11 a.m. screenings Saturday and Sunday, February 3rd and 4th at the Monicas.

“A documentary of stunning immediacy and marvelous images” (Wall Street Journal)

“It's head and shoulders above the rest in its clarity, intimacy and poetry, and it illustrates the dreadful predicament America has created in Iraq, which drove so many angry people to the polls on [election day].” (Salon.com)

“Working with vérité patience and no scripted narration, Longley looks and listens, with nonjudgmental sensitivity, as Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish Iraqis explain their colliding, intractable, invaded worlds, and their rising frustrations.” (Entertainment Weekly)

“James Longley's haunting, oblique film, IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS, presents a collage of images, sounds and characters in an intimate, partial portrait of an unraveling nation.” (New York Times)

“This one demands to be seen.” (L.A. Times)