"Director: Karzan Sherabayani"

• Return to Kirkuk - A Year in the Fire | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £8.91   |  Saving you £1.08 (10.80%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This thought provoking intelligent and emotional story gives a unique insight into the true political feeling and civil unrest in Iraq today. It was 30 years ago that a 14 year old boy Karzan Sherabayani was arrested and tortured by Saddam Hussein's secret police his only crime being that he was Kurdish. After 25 long years in exile Karzan now a British citizen has returned to his childhood home to vote in Iraq's first democratic election. Having been banished for so long Karzan now asks the people of Kirkuk if they accept the path promoted by the West...a path that will inevitably lead to a divided Iraq or bloody civil war. In this incredible documentary Karzan exposes the city that sits upon one of the world's largest oil deposits as a place where old ethnic and sectarian divisions are still rife. Kirkuk he says is a microcosm of the new Iraq. During the year it took to make the programme Karzan confronted old demons from his past and met with the heroes and villains who are fashioning the country's dangerous and uncertain future. Kirkuk the spiritual capital of Iraqi-controlled Kurdistan has always been on fire it's known by the local people as the ""land of warmth"". Follow one man's incredible insight into a city at the crossroads of history. For Karzan Sherabayani it has been a year in the fire...