• Director(s):

    ALANI (Feurat)

  • Producer(s):

    BAOZI PROD

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2013

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

10 years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, what do the Iraqis think of their country?

ARTE Reportage set out to meet them, on board a KIA, a collective taxi. In Bagdad, the Iraqi capital, the situation remains unstable. Checkpoints and attacks are part of the Iraqis’ lives. Everything needs rebuilding. In rebellious Fallujah, in the Sunni zone, the population lives in near-autarchy. The Baghdad government has isolated the former bastion of the insurrection, and some inhabitants, like the tribal leaders, are losing their patience. The final leg of the journey is Basra, a predominantly Shiite city in the South. The region’s vast economic potential should make it the new Dubai. But infrastructure is cruelly lacking. There is no drinking water and no road system. The majority of the population is poor. And as the oil companies rake in billions of dollars, the wrath of the local population is rising.