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Los Angeles: Iraqi President’s Wife Goes
Looking for a Film Distributor
29.9.2008
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September
29, 2008
LA, U.S., — Under the watchful eye of the
Secret Service and the Los Angeles police, Hero
Ibrahim Ahmed, the wife of Iraq’s president, Jalal
Talabani, traveled to Los Angeles on Saturday in
search of a film distributor.
Ms. Ahmed,www.ekurd.net
presided over a
screening of “Jani Gal,” a film directed by Jamil
Rostami and based on a novel written by her father,
Ibrahim Ahmed.
The story turns on the Kurdish struggle against
government oppression in the 1940s and ’50s,www.ekurd.net
and has been billed as
the first Iraqi feature film made since the fall of
Saddam Hussein.
“I was not looking to make a movie,” Ms. Ahmed told
the assembled journalists and Hollywood players. “I
was looking to have a cinema and watch a movie.” |
Iraq's first lady, Hero Ibrahim Ahmed (Talabani) |
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