The films of the Festival

The Liberace of Baghdad

2004 - GB - 74 min - Couleurs

Director : Sean McAllister
Image : Sean McAllister
Montage : Ollie Huddleston
Son : Sean McAllister
Musique : Samir Peter
Production : Sean McAllister
Executive/Co-Producteurs : Mette Heida, Mette Hoffman Meyer, Nick Fraser
Interprète : Samir Peter
Source : Tenfoot Films and Team Production

Holed up in a heavily fortified Baghdad hotel, the pianist Samir Peter and film-maker Sean McAllister try to survive the 'peace' of post-war Iraq.

Samir, once Iraq's most famous pianist, now plays in a half-empty hotel bar to contractors, mercenaries and besieged journalists. In his heyday he described himself as the 'Liberace of Baghdad' but today he sleeps in a bricked up hotel room, too afraid to cross town to his seven-bedroomed mansion. Samir now has a visa to live in America, to find fame and fortune there in what he calls his 'one last adventure in life'.
Will Samir now sacrifice his American dream for the sake of his family left in lawless Iraq?

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