This is an extended edit based on the original festival release in 2006. Additional footage was added by the filmmakers when releasing the director's cut in 2013. To watch the original version go here vimeo.com/157618781 In Nice Bombs filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years. This documentary navigates through his unique relationship to an Iraq that is much different than the country of his childhood. Usama captures the conflicting reactions to the conditions of life in Baghdad. Through a wide range of opinions and experiences he provides a broad panorama of voices long neglected under Saddam’s regime. His cousin Tareef enters the room upon hearing an explosion. “It’s a bomb. A Nice Bomb,” he explains. The phrase is indicative of his family’s nonchalance about their situation. As one young boy put it, “We’re Iraqis. It’s normal.” With humor and resilience Nice Bombs explores Usama’s dual role as both Iraqi and American. Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips “…a surprisingly warm first-person video diary… edited with grace and tact.” Variety “thoroughly engaging . . .offers a uniquely time-layered vision of the war.” New York Sun “Loaded with candid conversations and opinions about the hot-button issues of war, terrorism, and Islamic extremism,’Nice Bombs’ offers many different Iraqi and American points of view and portrays a time and place of nightmarish complexity.”

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