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Hannah: I went to see many a movie in that theater… we will get to those.Ĭolleen: Yeah. Hannah: Yeah, I remember when Dohuk got its first movie theater and how excited everybody was. Which is not the way that it is now.Ĭolleen: No, there are a few movie theaters now and not as many as we often have in United States cities, still. They just happened to use the projector to show a movie sometimes. But it was like you're sat in a folding chair, maybe in theater seats if it was a nicer venue.Ĭolleen: But yeah, it was not a venue that was exclusively made for showing movies. Hannah: Like, you could go to a meeting hall and they would show a movie sometimes. Hannah: Yes, and when I first moved to Iraq, there weren't really movie theaters to go to. In Kurdistan you very likely will run into "My Heart Will Go On." Hannah: And so when I moved there and had never seen Titanic, people were appalled, like, how could I have not seen such a classic movie?Ĭolleen: And like, "My Heart Will Go On" is a song that you can hear in any grocery store, mall, store anywhere. ![]() Hannah: I have one piece of interesting trivia I learned, which explained a lot of things to me was that the first full-length Western movie ever shown in Iraqi Kurdistan was Titanic. Hannah: It was always an experience, that's for sure. And I think I think that's why we love movie theaters so much is for the experience.Ĭolleen: I mean, that's definitely how I viewed movie going in Iraq, certainly. WATCHING SOMEONE FALL TO THEIR DEATH DREAM MEANING FULLHannah: Definitely a movie you have to be in the theater to really get the full experience on. The last movie we saw, we went together.Ĭolleen: It was incredible. Now, I'm not a big go-to-the-movies person. Hannah: Theaters, movie theaters, have been closed for a while.Ĭolleen: Yeah, I think maybe we're feeling a little nostalgic for something we almost never did. Hannah: And we're going to tell you about our life in Iraq. Maybe they didn’t hit Western news enough to register? Let us know if you find one you love!Īnd here's a rough transcript! Hannah: Welcome to Between Iraq and a Hard Place. Here’s even more! We’ve seen some of these, but some of the ones we’ve seen aren’t on this list.“Jani Gal” – A stereotypical Kurdish movie full of travel and sadness.All the attempts of the two Kurds to get rid of the child fail…” At the same time the boy’s parents are looking for him everywhere, worried because of the boy’s name which is now taboo. ![]() Two Kurds are looking for the parents of a five-year-old boy who has been found in the street in tears. “A road movie set in Iraq in 2003 during the fall of Saddam.
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