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Iraqi Odyssey

Iraqi Odyssey

2014 162 min Schweiz, Deutschland, Irak, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate Dokumentarfilm
Regie: Samir
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Iraqi Odyssey (Arabic: الأوديسة العراقية, romanized: al-ʿAwdassi al-ʿIrāqiyya) is a 2014 Swiss documentary film written and directed by Samir. It was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. The film won awards including the Best Asian Film Award at the 2014 Abu Dhabi Film Festival and the 2015 Zurich Film Prize.[ 1] [ 2]

The film contrasts contemporary Western media images of Iraq with footage from the 1950s and 1970s, and follows director Samir as he tells the story of his globally dispersed Iraqi middle-class family, whose members are scattered across Auckland, Moscow, Paris, London, and Buffalo.[ 1]

The film won awards including the Best Asian Film Award at the 2014 Abu Dhabi Film Festival, the 2015 Zurich Film Prize, and third place in the documentary category at the 2016 Zurich Film Prize. It was also nominated for Best Documentary Film at the 2015 Swiss Film Award.[ 1]

In August 2015, Iraqi Odyssey was one of seven films shortlisted for consideration as Switzerland’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards.[ 3] Later that month, it was selected as Switzerland’s official submission.[ 2] [ 4] It failed to make the Academy’s nine-film shortlist for the category.[ 5]

The Hollywood Reporter described Iraqi Odyssey as an ambitious and timely account of a liberal Iraqi family in diaspora, but said that “feelings get swept under the carpet in favor of repetitive globe-trotting”.[ 6]

Filmdienst described Iraqi Odyssey as a documentary in which Samir traces his Iraqi roots through the stories of his family and the decline of Iraq, and said that despite visible breaks caused by family conflicts and the film’s long production, the project felt cohesive.[ 7]

SRF described it as a monumental documentary that weaves the fate of Samir’s family together with the history of Iraq, and called it a celebration of storytelling marked by black humour despite its tragedy.[ 8]

On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 60 out of 100, based on five critic reviews, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.[ 9]

The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015 and its European premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2015.[ 8] It was later screened at festivals including the 2015 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, the 2015 Gijón International Film Festival, the 2015 Iran International Documentary Film Festival (Cinema Verité), the 2016 Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the 2016 Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Film Festival.[ 1]

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Dr. Kai Hoffmann
Dr. Kai Hoffmann
Studienleiter Wissenschaft
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Kinostart
06.09.2014 Toronto International Film Festival 2014
29.09.2014 Zurich Film Festival
05.03.2015 Deutschschweiz
15.10.2015 Libanon
23.10.2015 Österreich
27.11.2015 Vereinigte Staaten
14.01.2016 Deutschland
03.02.2016 Romandie
Genre
Dokumentarfilm
Herstellungsland
Schweiz, Deutschland, Irak, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Originalsprache
Arabisch, Englisch, Deutsch, Russisch
Farbe
Farbe
Laufzeit
162 Minuten
Produktionsfirma
Dschoint Ventschr
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Iraqi Odyssey id cs
Іракська одіссея
伊拉克史詩 zh-hant
伊拉克史诗 zh-cn zh-hans zh
الأوديسة العراقية
الاوديسه العراقيه arz
Iracka Odyseja pl
Иракская одиссея
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0 Nominierungen
2015
Zurich Film Awards
Zurich Film Award
Documentary film
Gewinner
Berlinale
Panorama Audience Award
Documentary Film
Nominiert
Swiss Film Prize
Swiss Film Prize
Best Documentary (Bester Dokumentarfilm)
Nominiert
2014
Abu Dhabi Film Festival
NETPAC Award
Best Film
Gewinner
Abu Dhabi Film Festival
Black Pearl Award
Best Documentary Feature
Nominiert

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