I’M MIGRANT
Two Documentary Portraits

In this deeply personal project, Director Yamam Nabeel shares the Iraq he missed out on, as the young son of exiled Iraqi poet Nabeel Yasin, a parallel Iraq created by these artists he grew up with in Europe.

Screening followed by a Q&A with the Director

I’m Migrant: Koutaiba Al Janabi
Dir: Yamam Nabeel

I’m Migrant: Ghani Alani
Dir: Yamam Nabeel

I’m Migrant is a documentary portrait series of exiled Iraqi artists that lends its name to the festival. Created by the festival’s founder, Yamam Nabeel, it tells the stories of the cultural and personal homeland created by artists away from Iraq. These two episodes are with the Iraqi calligrapher Ghani Alani, the only student of Hashem Al-Khattat to receive the "Ijaze", which makes him part of a historic lineage of calligraphers dating back to Abbasid times, and Koutaiba Al Janabi whose films tell the stories of the suffering the Iraqi people have endured.