Haider Rashid, who was awarded the best director prize at last year’s Red Sea Film Festival for his Cannes selected film “Europa,” was back at the event this week to pitch his new project, the comi…
.” The Italian-Iraqi filmmaker plans to explore themes of resistance and identity through a love story between two breakdancers in Baghdad’s underground hip-hop scene.
“It’s not necessarily a prequel as it’s not the same character, but it’s the same generation. This was the inception of ‘Tigris.’ How can we talk about this young generation in Iraq who were born just before or just after the 2003 war [with the U.S.]? What is their life like? How can we narrate their story in a way that becomes universal? Because I think the struggles of the youth are universal throughout the world.
Rashid has chosen to use hip-hop as the film’s conducting wire. “I grew up listening to it, and I love it as a medium of expression,” he says. “And it became one of the mediums of expression of the revolution — whether it was dancing, rapping or graffiti art. It speaks to people. It’s fast and propagates concepts very easily. I love it as a subculture and I love what it entails: to have to prove yourself to have the respect of other people.
He and “Europa” collaborator Sonia Giannetto are writing the script and taking the first steps in the casting process. Giannetto will also be the film’s creative producer.
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