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Place of Birth: Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
About Khairiya Al Mansour
- Khairiya Al Mansour is an Iraqi filmmaker and director.
- Born March 28, 1958, in Baghdad, Khairiya studied there from 1976 to 1980 at the Academy of Arts, and in Cairo at the Higher Film Institute in 1987.
- She was an assistant director to well-known Iraqi and Egyptian directors such as Salah Abu Seif, Tewfik Saleh, and Youssef Chahine.
- She herself has made around forty documentary films for the Iraqi ministry of culture and for private producers.
- She has also directed two full-length films.
- When the international embargo against Iraq brought about the collapse of the film industry there, she started working for Iraqi and Jordanian television.
- She divides her time between Baghdad and Cairo. Khairiya Al Mansour's films can generally be divided into two categories.
- Her socially critical films tackle issues such as the situation of women of Iraq: This is My Village (about peasant women), Determination, and The Lady of Ages (about the founding of the Iraqi Women's Association).
- Or they deal with the impact of the international embargo, especially on Iraq's children: Look! and White Dreams (about a milk factory that was destroyed) and One Day in Baghdad. Khairiya's other area of film is artist's portraits: Magical Fingers (about women painters), Cinema Lover (about a deceased director), and The Dream, The Memory (about a famous actor who died during the embargo).
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