Our River...Our Sky

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.

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.

There is mild bad language ('bastard', 'pissed', 'son of a bitch', 'bloody'), accompanied by other milder terms ('hell' and 'damn').

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.

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.

A woman makes reference to 'happy pills' she is taking for her depression. There are also scenes in which adults smoke cigarettes.

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.

There are upsetting scenes in which families grieve the loss of loved ones and deal with the sorrows of war.