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Caption: The directors of six leading European documentary film festivals (Jihlava, Visions du Reel, Docs Against Gravity, Doclisboa, CPH:DOX, DOK Leipzig) gathered together in Locarno to congratulate Abbas Fahdel for the award won by his film Homeland
About Abbas Fahdel
Director, Writer, Cinematographer
Source: IMDB
Abbas Fahdel is born in Babylon, Iraq. When he was 18 years-old, he moved to France, where he pursued his studies in cinema at the Sorbonne University until Ph.D. It is only in 2002 that he returns to Iraq, with a French passport. This return is the subject of the documentary film Back to Babylon (2002), in which he asks himself: "What have my ...
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