Sephardic Film Festival Archives
2008 - Meir Basri (short)
This short documentary made by filmmaker attorney and recipient of the Sephardic Legacy Award at L.A. Sephardic Jewish Film Festival ’06, Carole Basri, about the life of her uncle Meir Basri. Basri was a statesman, writer, leader of the Jewish community in Baghdad, a renown Arabic poet and sadly a torture victim of Saddam Hussein. The documentary focuses on the human spirit to not only survive but enrich the societies in which we live.
USA, 2007, 19 min.: English
