Hollywoodgate Directed by Ibrahim Nash'at
How many wars has the United States of America fought, provoked, or unleashed?
How many coups d'état have organised? How many enemies have died, been injured and tortured?
The answer from filmmaker Ibrahim Nash'at, in his documentary Hollywoodgate, is certain: it was the ruthless Afghans who attacked the United States. The American soldiers had only defended their homeland by building the first defensive line 11,925 kilometres from home?
Hollywoodgate was presented at the 80th Venice Film Festival.
Mosul Directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan
Thirty thousand Iraqi soldiers are fleeing Mosul. Daesh has conquered Mosul, the city is totally in their hands. Yet a small but deadly and annoying resistance still exists in the city. It is a squadron of swats, all Iraqis. Deadly, heroic, brave, strong fighters, ruthless and bad. ISIS fears them, the order to kill them immediately without offering them the opportunity of the Towba, the conversion. These heroic human characters have attracted the curiosity of an American director Matthew Michael Carnahan. It made an American production action film with local actors and starred in Arabic. It is Mosul presented at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.