Selected Press for The Dreams of Sparrows (2005)

"Through the eyes of Iraqis, in "The Dreams of Sparrows," we can finally divine what emerges from the war's digestive tract...From Baghdad's necropolis of slums and nightmarish refugee camps we travel with Daffar to its middle-class apartments, artists' hangouts, mosques and the headquarters of the Communist Party. This is a city of armed men and of stylish women nervously chain-smoking in their apartments; a city where children studying in a private school hold up crayon drawings and say, "Here the tank is aiming at the helicopter, and they exchange shells and rockets." - Tom Bissell, The New York Times Magazine (link)

"This taste of reality is so bitter it just might make you choke, but it's something we should all experience anyway. 'Dreams of Sparrows' is a frightening, eye-opening kick in the butt." - Eric Campos, Filmthreat.com

PRESS LINKS

• The New York Times Magazine review of four Iraqi war docs by Tom Bissell link
• WIRED.COM article about The Dreams of Sparrows by Jason Silverman link
• MTV NEWS interview with Aaron Raskin and Hayder Daffar by Suchin Pak
• CNN Insight interviews with Aaron Raskin and Hayder Daffar by Jonathon Mann and Kianne Sadeq
• NEWSWEEK: Periscope Section Q&A (link) in Domestic and Final Word Q&A (link) in Newsweek International by Lorraine Ali
• BBC's The World on NPR interview with Aaron Raskin and Hayder Daffar by Marco Werman link
• OpenSource Radio with Chris Lydon interview with Aaron Raskin and Hayder Daffar link
• Variety Dennis Harvey reviews The Dreams of Sparrows for the Arab Film Festival link
• New York Times Jason Buchanan's review of The Dreams of Sparrows link
• PopMatters Cynthia Fuchs' review of The Dreams of Sparrows link
• Rotten Tomatoes see how Dreams ranks link
• Filmthreat.com's Eric Campos' review of The Dreams of Sparrows link