Hiba Bassem

Hiba Bassem is a film student from Kirkuk, who returns to Baghdad after the war in order to continue her film studies and films a video diary turned documentary of her experiences. She struggles to find housing, negotiates her feelings about the Iraqi elections, thinks about her relationships, and attempts to find a place in…

Hiba Bassem contemplates the years of war she has faced through conversations with her family and friends, and through her time spent living at home. She documents the mental and physical exhaustion faced by Iraqis after years of war, reaching everyone, even those as young as her little sisters.