About
Abbas Fadhel (Arabic: عباس فاضل) is an Iraqi-French film director, screenwriter and film critic, born in Babylon, Iraq. Most known for his 2015 film Homeland: Iraq Year Zero. Based in France since the age of 18 years, he studied cinema at the Sorbonne University until Ph.D. In January 2002, he returned to Iraq with a French passport and filmed a documentary film, Back to Babylon, in which he asked himself: "What have my childhood friends become? How have their lives changed? What would my life have been like if I hadn't chosen to build my destiny elsewhere?" The country's dramatic situation is the background of this introspective investigation.
Filmography
Tales of the Wounded Land2025 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography
Tales of the Purple House2022 · Director
Bitter Bread2019 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor
Yara2018 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer, Producer
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero2016 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer
Dawn of the World2009 · Director, Writer
We Iraqis2004 · Director, Writer
Back to Babylon2002 · Director