Director: James Longley

The living, breathing, and seething culture of this deathly, contradictory society comes through in thie intimately observed, prize-winning film as against the nightly TV picture of a very distanced Iraq. Iraq in Fragments is even more relevant now in the light of the George W. Bush troop escalation than when it wa shot more than two years ago. -Minnesota Film Arts.

There are no shows Weds 2/21, due to scheduling conflicts. Sorry for the inconvience.

An opus in three parts, Iraq in Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied.

American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.

Winner of Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing awards at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival documentary competition, the film was also awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. 94 minutes.

Iraq in Fragments is being co-sponsored by WAMM, Women Against Miltary Madness.

Nightly @ 7p.m. & 9p.m. Matinee Sat. & Sun. 5:15p.m.

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