Sari's mother
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Sari's mother |
| Country of production | USA , Iraq |
| original language | Arabic |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 21 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | James Longley |
| script | James Longley |
| production | James Longley |
| music | James Longley |
| camera | James Longley |
| cut | James Longley Fiona Otway |
Sari's Mother is a US - Iraqi short documentary film from 2007. The film was nominated for " Best Documentary Short " at the 2008 Academy Awards.
The director James Longley came to Baghdad in summer 2003 at the invitation of the journalist Farida Nawa to accompany a report that Nawa wrote for POZ magazine . POZ is aimed primarily at people with AIDS and HIV- positive people. Nawa was working on an article on AIDS in Iraq. In Baghdad, Longley met the Zegum family through Nawa, whose ten-year-old son Sari was infected with the HIV virus through a blood transfusion. Sari's mother Faten was accompanied by Longley until September 2004, most recently not in the family home, but only in hospitals and authorities, as strangers threatened to murder Longley and the Zegum family if Longley did not finish his filming in southern Baghdad. The film premiered in 2007 at the Toronto Film Festival .
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The Zegum family lives with nine children south of Baghdad in the Mahmudiyah region in a mud hut and lives from the sale of milk and butter. The Zegums are poor and there is not much money available for medical care. The antiviral drugs that could extend Sari's life are far too expensive. Sari spends his days on the floor of the hut, he is in pain and his mother takes care of him as well as she can.
Faten Zegum is struggling through Iraq's unfathomable health system to get the best possible medical care for her son Sari. The camera accompanies Faten Zegum and Sari to various hospitals and authorities, accompanies them to ministries and documents that Zegum and her son are only sent around in circles. There is no help.
Awards and nominations
The film won the Golden Gate Award at the 2007 San Francisco International Film Festival . The film was also nominated for Best Documentary Short at the 2008 Academy Awards.
Web links
- Sari's Mother in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sari's Mother on the website of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
- Petra Tabeling: Sari's Mother - Lost between death and terror in Iraq , article on dw-world.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the film ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 25, 2012.
- ↑ a b Sari's Mother on d-word.com, accessed January 25, 2012.
