Meeting Resistance

In May, 2003, just one month after the statue of Saddam Hussein is pulled down in Baghdad's Firdos Square, followed just days later by the first insurgent counterstrike against coalition troops, journalists Steve Connor and Molly Bingham began making contact with members of the growing resistance in and around the Sunni-dominated Al Adhamiya neighborhood of northern Baghdad. Over the next ten months, they would succeed in interviewing a wide variety of insurgents dedicated to forcing the occupation troops out of Iraq. Although their real names are never given and their faces are never shown, their important film shows the multi-faceted aspect of the Iraqi resistance ...