(It Was) Just a Job

(It Was) Just a Job

1992 · 5 min

Right after the first Iraq war, the filmmaker visits his family in Iraq. He tries to reconstruct the war from different points of view, all depicted on the same screen at the same time: U.S. airplanes dropping bombs, his parents fixated on the television, and the family welcoming him back.

Directed by Samir Jamal Al Din · Written by Samir Jamal Al Din

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