The Royal Film Commission - Jordan, invites you to attend the screening of the documentary “Letters from Baghdad", Monday 18th of December 2017 at 7:00 PM, at The Rainbow Theater - Jebel Amman - 1st Circle.

Letters from Baghdad

Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum, 95 min, Documentary, English, UK/USA/France, 2016

“Letters from Baghdad” tells the extraordinary story of British spy, explorer, archaeologist and diplomat Gertrude Bell – considered by some as the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her days and as influential as her colleague T.E.Lawrence (a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia). She helped shape the modern Middle East after WWI and established the Iraq Museum, which was infamously ransacked in 2003. Why was Bell written out of history?

Using never-seen before archival footage of the region from 100 years ago, the film chronicles Bell’s astonishing journey into the uncharted Arabian desert and the inner sanctum of British colonial power. The documentary reveals a past that is eerily current and a vanished world that is impossible to imagine.

The movie has won the Audience Award at Beirut International Film Festival and Focal International Award for Best Archival Footage in a History Feature. It has participated at BFI London Film Festival, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, The Netherlands DOC NYC, Aspen Film Festival, Colorado Istanbul Silent Cinema Days, Recontres Internationales Des Cinémas Arabes, War on Screen, Il Cinema Ritrovato, Dok. Munich, Leiden Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival.

Film Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0q2Th2Mq3A