a country that has been subjected to war, genocide, violations of human rights, and most recently, the rise of ISIS. The filmmakers featured in this programme are either Iraqis or Kurds still living and creating in Iraq, or Iraqi-born artists who fled Iraq and now live abroad. These diverse horizons create a kaleidoscopic image of what it means to live in Iraq today or to live with memories of a country devastated by decades of war. Even though these short films deal with tragic realities, they are above all documents of the past («March, 1983»), testimonies of surviving families («Ants Apartment»), manifestos for love and freedom («Buzz»), conceptual places («Bagdad, Iowa»), declarations of love for cinema («Slap»), absurd tragicomic tales («Home & Key»), and moments of resistance (in the installation «The Tethered»). With the filmmakers’ various artistic backgrounds and cinematographic languages, this programme in some ways represents a mental and emotional history of Iraq, asking what the concept of identity means for a devastated society. Delphine Jeanneret
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