Salaam dunk / directed by David Fine ; screen writer, Beau Lewis.

"Basketball is much more than a game in David Fine's stirring documentary about an Iraqi women's basketball team at the American University of Iraq--Sulaimani (AUIS) in Kurdistan. For the young women on the team, most of whom have never touched a basketball or been allowed to play sports at all befo...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Typecast Films (Firm)
Other Authors: Fine, David
Lewis, Beau
Language:English
Arabic
Kurdish
Language and/or Writing System:
In English, Arabic, and Kurdish with English subtitles.
Published: [Seattle, Wash.] : Typecast Releasing, [2011], ©2011.
Subjects:
Women basketball players > Iraq.
Women > Iraq > Social conditions.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Genre:
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
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Summary:
"Basketball is much more than a game in David Fine's stirring documentary about an Iraqi women's basketball team at the American University of Iraq--Sulaimani (AUIS) in Kurdistan. For the young women on the team, most of whom have never touched a basketball or been allowed to play sports at all before, it is a blissful escape from the realities of living in a war-torn nation"--Container.
Note:Originally produced as a documentary film in 2011.
Videorecording.
Call Number:GV886 .S25 2011 VideoDVD
Credits:Camera, San Saravan, David Fine; edited by David Fine; music supervisor, Aziz Weysi; score, Jeff Kite, Rebwar Quaradakhie, Hawar Zahawi, Azad Zahawi.
System Details:DVD.