My Country, My Country
Featured: Laura Poitras’s engrossing “My Country, My Country,” which documents the months leading up to Iraq’s January 2005 elections through the eyes of a Sunni doctor in Baghdad, who decides to run for Baghdad’s provincial council. Included: He leads a visit to Abu Ghraib prison; meets with the Americans to voice his objections to the fighting in Fallujah; helps someone whose son is being held for ransom by militants. Also: the Iraqi Islamic Party’s election boycott.
