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Chibayish 2022

2022 · 25 min

A quiet, contemplative drift through marshland and oil waste, mixing observation and animation into a meditative essay on belonging.

Directed by
Alia Farid
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Riad Samir, Jassim Mohammed, Qassim Mohammed
Overview
Alia Farid’s recent work examines how nature in southern Iraq has, since the advent of modernity, been mobilised as a political tool. Her new film Chibayish was recorded in the marshlands of southern Iraq, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in a region engulfed by oil infrastructure and industrial waste. It captures the artist’s exchanges with three young residents as they map the community that inhabits the marsh, and belt out calls to the buffalo that roam its waters. Mixing footage with CGI animation, Chibayish comes to explore cultural identity, history, colonialism and the right to remain.

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Directed by
Alia Farid
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Riad Samir, Jassim Mohammed, Qassim Mohammed
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    Themes
    • environment
    • identity
    • colonialism
    • nature
    • isolation
    Places
    • wilderness
    • countryside
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    Content intensity
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    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Action1
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism8
    Romance0
    Tension2
    Darkness4
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight6

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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Alia Farid
    Starring
    Riad Samir, Jassim Mohammed, Qassim Mohammed
    Cinematography
    Muhammed Al Mubarak
    Runtime
    25 min
    Country
    Iraq

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