Basra

Acerca de Basra

Basra es una película egipcia de 2008.

Resumen

Basra es una película egipcia de 2008. Sinopsis El Cairo, 17 de marzo de 2003. El ataque estadounidense-británico contra Irak es inminente. ¿Cómo puede un fotógrafo egipcio, de unos treinta años, superar sus propias decepciones y miedos? ¿Cómo puede encontrar una respuesta a las preguntas existenciales relacionadas con la vida, la muerte, el sexo y la lógica en medio de su conciencia de todo el absurdo que lo rodea? ¿Puede este artista permanecer vivo (respirando, pensando y fotografiando) y sobrevivir a esta atmósfera opresiva? ¿O va a caer con Bagdad? Premios Mostra de Valencia 2008 El Cairo 2008 Cine Árabe, Róterdam, 2009 Cine Árabe, Bruselas, 2009 Referencias

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“Iraq is getting stronger, getting unified. I think others, or the interference of others in the affairs of Iraq, will become less and less. This is a new-built confidence among Iraqis, the Iraqi national feeling, which our aim is to increase people’s attachment to their own country.”
— Haider al-Abadi, interview with Tamer El-Ghobashy
“The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution.”
— George W. Bush, speech at the National Endowment for Democracy (6 November 2003)
“Iraqis will decide who controls Iraq - no one from outside.”
— Raid Jahid Fahmi, as quoted in Communist leader: Iraqis to decide who controls Iraq, nobody else (25 May 2018), .
“We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.”
— John Kerry Speech at New York University (21 September 2004)
“The administration has said that Iraq has no right to stockpile chemical or biological weapons, mainly because they have used them in the past. Well, if that's the standard by which these matters are decided, then the U.S. is the nation that set the precedent. The U.S. has stockpiled these same weapons and more for over forty years.”
— Timothy McVeigh, "An Essay on Hypocrisy" (1998), Media Bypass.
“In autumn 2003, when, after hundreds of investigators had searched high and low for WMDs, yet not a single one had been located, the public were posing the elementary question: 'If there are no WMDs, Why did we attack Iraq? Did you lie to us?'”
— Slavoj Žižek, Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, p. 12.

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