Baghdad – IA – Fatima Rahma
Syrian director Basil Al-Khatib confirmed on Wednesday that the Baghdad Film Festival is a real opportunity to learn about the latest cinematic proposals.
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Al-Khatib told the Iraqi News Agency (INA): “I met Iraqis in the corridors of the festival, and their aesthetic ideas pleased me,” noting that “the Baghdad Film Festival, which we have waited for a long time, is an extension of the Iraqi cultural dimension, in poetry, theater and art, because cinema is the most influential contemporary art in the process of communities.”
He added, “I visited Baghdad four times, and I found it witnessing a clear cultural advancement from time to time. I also noticed a great interest in culture in Iraq, as it is intensifying within the currently held Baghdad Film Festival, which is a real opportunity through which we learned about the latest cinematic proposals.”
He continued, “I found Iraqi art luminous in a country whose civilization goes back thousands of years, and is saturated with culture, where we were raised on the poems of great Iraqi poets such as Al-Sayyab and Al-Jawahiri, and we grew up on the great Iraqi films.”
