By the time Saddam Hussein was executed in December 2006, Iraq had experienced the “most intense” year of sectarian violence since the US-led invasion three years earlier.
It’s why the Iraqi filmmaker Maysoon Pachachi chose that year in which to set her fictional film about Baghdad under the US occupation. There’s no main character but instead an ensemble of people, residents of one neighbourhood whose lives are intertwined in one way or another, and punctuated by violence and curfews.
