| Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection | |
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| Directed by | Samir |
| Written by | Samir |
| Screenplay by | Samir |
| Produced by | Samir Gerd Haag Karin Koch |
| Cinematography | Nurit Aviv Philippe Bellaiche |
| Edited by | Samir Nina Schneider |
| Music by | Rabih Abou-Khalil |
Production companies | Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, TagTraum Cologne |
| Distributed by | Arab Film Distribution |
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Running time | 111 |
| Countries | Germany Switzerland |
| Languages | English Arabic Hebrew |
Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection is a 2002 documentary film about Mizrahim, members of the former Jewish community of Iraq. It was written and directed by Samir, a Swiss-Iraqi filmmaker born in Baghdad in 1955 who has been living in Switzerland since 1961.
The film focuses on five expatriate Iraqi Jews, most living in Israel: Shimon Ballas, Moshe (Moussa) Houri, Sami Michael, Samir Naqqash, and Ella Habiba Shohat.
The film's music is by Lebanese jazz musician Rabih Abou-Khalil. It was produced by Karin Koch, Gerd Haag, and Samir and edited by Nina Schneider and Samir. The directors of photography were Nurith Aviv and Philippe Bellaiche.
The film was a coproduction between TagTraum Cologne, SF DRS, Teleclub, and Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion. It is 112 minutes in length.
The DVD, which is distributed by Arab Film Distribution, comes with a 30-minute "Making of the film" featurette. The DVD has multiple audio tracks and subtitles in English, German, French, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish.