Sari's Mother

Sari 's Mother is an American- Iraqi short documentary from the year 2007. During the Academy Awards ceremony in 2008, the film was nominated for "Best Short Documentary ".

The director James Longley came in the summer of 2003 at the invitation of journalist Farida Nawa to Baghdad, there to accompany a report, the Nawa wrote for the magazine POZ. POZ is intended primarily for Aids patients and HIV -positive people. Nawa was working on an article about AIDS in Iraq. In Baghdad Longley learned by Nawa family Zegum know whose ten year old son Sari was infected through a blood transfusion with HIV. Saris mother Faten was accompanied by Longley to September 2004, last no longer at the family home, but only in hospitals and government agencies, as unknown threatened to assassinate Longley and family Zegum should Longley not finish his filming in the south of Baghdad. Premiered the film in 2007 at the Toronto Film Festival.

Action

The Zegum family lives with nine children south of Baghdad in the region Mahmudiyah in a mud hut and living from selling milk and butter. The Zegums are poor, a lot of money for medical care is not available. The antiviral drugs that could prolong life saris are much too expensive. Sari spends his days on the floor of the hut, he is in pain and is maintained as good as possible from his mother.

Faten Zegum fights his way through the unfathomable health care system of Iraq in order to get the best possible medical care for their son sari. The camera accompanies Faten Zegum and saree in various hospitals and agencies, accompanied in ministries and documented that Zegum and her son are always sent around in circles. Help does not exist.

Awards and nominations

On the San Francisco International Film Festival 2007, the film with the Golden Gate Award. Furthermore, the film was nominated for the Academy Awards in 2008 for Best Short Documentary.