Over the past 6 years of working in Baghdad, we have preferred to maintain a low profile; given the security situation we found this was the best way of continuing to be able to work. Our students' films have been seen at many festivals and special screenings all around the world, but not in Iraq. We are hoping, however, that, finally, the situation in Iraq is calming down enough for us to mount a festival of our students' films inside the country. We are, therefore, hoping to hold a nine-day travelling festival in Iraq in the autumn/winter of 2010.

Kasim Abid, one of the founders of the school, showed his film, LIFE AFTER THE FALL, in a film festival in Khartoum in Sudan and, at the same time also screened IFTVC student films and talked about the school and the thinking behind the project.  

We completed our new documentary film course in December 2009.  Our students produced two new films: NA'EEM THE BARBER and A PHOTOGRAPHER'S MEMORIES.

NA'EEM THE BARBER has just won third prize in Student Documentary section of the 2010 Gulf Film Festival in Dubai.

Hiba Basssem's film from our first documentary course Baghdad Days will be shown at the Robert Flaherty Seminar in New York in June 2009.

By the early part of 2007, the security situation in Baghdad had deteriorated to such an extent, that we were forced to temporarily shut down the school, and complete our films in Damascus.