• Director(s)

    Maysoon Pachachi

  • Production Year

    2021

  • Release date

    01/09/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    117m

  • Cast

    Mahmoud Abu Abbas, Myriam Abbas, Darina Al Joundi

Film

Our River...Our Sky

moderate threat, bloody images

Sectarian violence ravages Baghdad as its inhabitants try to go about their daily lives in this Arabic drama. Real-world threat bubbles under the surface, occasionally erupting into intense scenes of explosions and gunfire.…

Sectarian violence ravages Baghdad as its inhabitants try to go about their daily lives in this Arabic drama. Real-world threat bubbles under the surface, occasionally erupting into intense scenes of explosions and gunfire.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

threat and horror

language

sex

discrimination

drugs

injury detail

theme

  • Director(s)

    Maysoon Pachachi

  • Production Year

    2021

  • Release date

    01/09/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    117m

  • Cast

    Mahmoud Abu Abbas, Myriam Abbas, Darina Al Joundi

moderate threat, bloody images
Classified Date:
07/03/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Tull Stories
violence
References are made to violent acts carried out during the ongoing conflict in Baghdad, such as young women being lynched and bombs killing numerous people. In one scene, a fisherman retrieves the body of a woman from the river who appears to have been drowned after being labelled a 'fallen woman'. There are also undetailed verbal references to a woman's abusive husband.
threat and horror
There are brief but intense moments of threat as bombs detonate and gunfire rings out across the city of Baghdad, mostly occurring just off-screen. In one scene, passengers on a stationary bus are forced to huddle together after gunfire rings out behind them. A dead body surrounded by blood is seen in the distance shortly afterwards.
language
There is mild bad language ('bastard', 'pissed', 'son of a bitch', 'bloody'), accompanied by other milder terms ('hell' and 'damn').
sex
It is implied that two men are watching something illicit on a laptop screen, which is suggested might have been filmed without a woman's knowledge. We see nothing of what they are watching.
discrimination
There are scenes depicting sectarian conflict and discrimination, such as a Sunni woman refused entry to a funeral by a gunman. Other references come in the form of secondhand retellings of prejudicial attitudes among Iraqis. Such attitudes are clearly not endorsed by the work as a whole.
drugs
A woman makes reference to 'happy pills' she is taking for her depression. There are also scenes in which adults smoke cigarettes.
injury detail
There are occasional scenes containing blood in the aftermath of violence, such as a man washing blood from his car and a dead body following a shooting.
theme
There are upsetting scenes in which families grieve the loss of loved ones and deal with the sorrows of war.

  • Classified date

    07/03/2023

  • Language

    Arabic