Dr Nabil
This short film was made under very difficult circumstances by a student at the Independent Film and Television college in Baghdad. It focuses on Dr Nabil, a gentle and committed surgeon who is also a writer and works at a small, under-staffed Baghdad hospital, doing what he can with little equipment and few medicines. While many other doctors have been killed or fled the country in fear, Dr Nabil has decided to stay, though he worries how the atmosphere of violence and brutality in Iraq will affect his young son.
A simple film reflecting the complicated mixture of fear, distrust and hope that many Iraqis feel about their lives and their country.
