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‘Immortals’ Review: Thoughtful Doc Treats Young Iraqi Revolutionaries Not as Subjects So Much as Artistic Collaborators
Director Maja Tschumi and witnesses Melak Mahdi and Mohammed Al Khalili explore the hopes and desperation of a young generation in contemporary Iraq.
An insightful look into the social and political fabric of modern Iraq, Maja Tschumi ‘s film shows the quiet desperation of losing hope and having raging emotions that cannot be outwardly expressed. Although “Immortals” captures the specificity, language and culture of Iraq, the aspirations of the activists it follows mirror those of others in Sudan or Iran, to name just two other places where recently youth have shown that they demand change. As she recounts how she can only wander around Baghdad when dressed in her brother’s male clothes, many feelings are conveyed by the timbre of her voice: her pride in being able to figure out a way to be freer, her skepticism of the situation and her distress that this is what she has to resort to as a rallying feminist.
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