The UN can't function in Iraq, but Iraqis can film a movie in Baghdad...
Suffocated by years of military dictatorship and UN sanctions, Iraq's movie industry is staging its first post-war come back with a feature film shot amid the rubble of Baghdad and the US-led occupation.
Called "Underexposed", the film is to narrate the lives of young Iraqis in the first three days after the fall of Baghdad to Anglo-American coalition forces, combining real footage of the war with fictional scenes.
It will be only the second Iraqi feature film made since the United Nations slapped sanctions on Iraq in 1990 after former president Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.
Its 30-year-old director, Uday Rashid, says shooting will start next week and should be finished in four months.
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