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.

There will be screenings on three days in each of three Iraqi cities - Baghdad, Erbil and Basra. We are hoping that our students will be there to hold discussions with audiences. We are also hoping to be able to screen the VPRO documentary about our most recent course. At the moment we are fundraising for this festival.