Leaving or staying in your homeland (The Ruins of Iraq 4/5) | VPRO Documentary

In recent years, the flow of refugees from conflict zones towards Europe has increased. Despite the fact that Iraq has a long history of conflict, by no means is there fighting everywhere. Why do some make the decision to make the dangerous crossing by sea and others choose to stay behind in Iraq? In al-Lazzaka, a village south of Mosul and near Tikrit, Sakir explores what the word “home“ still means when it has lost its positive meaning. Do you try to build a new, secure existence on the ruins of the wars, or do you try to start over elsewhere? In the five-part series ’The Ruins of Iraq’, made in co-production with VICE Studios, Dutch-Palestinian filmmaker Sakir Khader (1990), accompanied by his friend and field producer Mohamed Rasool, travels for six months in the Iraq that we don’t get to see in the news. As a camjo director he speaks with Iraqi’s who were left behind in the places where the dust of four generations of war is slowly settling. How will their lives go on now tha