The Ongoing Occupation of Iraq
For those who are trying to understand and perhaps teach about the intricasies behing the ethnic and religious tensions in Iraq, two First Run/Icarus Films Fall 2005 New Releases may become essential resources.

SHI'ISM: WAITING FOR THE HIDDEN IMAM offers valuable insights into the complex, largely unknown history of this small branch of one of the world's largest faiths, now a politically influential, controversial religious movement. And, in THE ROAD TO KERBALA, Iraqi-Canadian filmmaker Katia Jarjoura joins pilgrims on the 100-kilometer walk from Baghdad to Kerbala, and finds rare insights into the psychology of Shiite Iraqis, and into the growing turmoil of U.S.-occupied Iraq.