Marta Balaga Dedicated to the events of 2006 in Iraq, “Our River… Our Sky” – previously known as “Another Day in Baghdad” – shows people who suddenly don’t recognize their own country anymore.
Trying to carry on with their normal routines, they are “acting life,” says director Maysoon Pachachi. As the conflict in Afghanistan rages on, the world premiere – in the Sarajevo Film Festival’s Dealing with the Past section – of her first fiction feature seems timely. “I have been watching the news just like everybody else, trying to make sense of it.
Somebody asked me the other day if I planned for my film to come out this way. Obviously, I didn’t know this was going to happen,” she says, describing 2006 as the year of “uncertainty and fear,”.
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