‘Hometown Baghdad” tells what its like to call a warzone home.
I just finished watching the first 2 episodes of ‘Hometown Baghdad’, a web-documentary that follows the lives of 20-somethings trying to make it in Baghdad. The show is a co-production between Chat The Planet and a group of Iraqi film-makers.
Adel & Saif (I haven’t watched the episode introducing Ausauma yet) are students in engineering and dentistry, respectfully. They are educated, middle-class guys who have remained in their hometown despite its deterioration. They are pursuing their educations and aspirations (Adel wants to be a rock musician).
As you watch the video, its easy to forget where these guys are: they sound like guys I knew in high school and college. Slight accents, but perfectly understandable. They talk about their bands and girlfriends. Only when they start talking about brain splatters and the loss of professors to extremist do you get a feeling that their world is so different.
Below is the 1st episode.